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Compsothlyphis americana |
The Northern Parula, Parula americana, is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida.
This species is migratory, wintering in southern Florida, northern Central America, the West Indies and most of the Lesser Antilles. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
The Northern Parula is 11 cm long and has mainly gray upperparts, with a greenish back patch and two white wingbars. The breast is yellowish shading into the white belly. The summer male has bluish and rufous breast bands and prominent white eye crescents. Females are duller and lack the breast bands. The breeding habitat is humid woodland with growths of Old Man's Beard lichen or Spanish moss. Northern Parulas nest in trees in clumps of these mosses, laying 3-7 eggs in a scantily-lined cup nest.
These birds feed on insects and spiders. Their song is a click-like trill or buzz, zeeeeee-yip. Their call is a soft chip.
References
- BirdLife International (2004). Parula americana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6
 Northern Parula |
 Parula on Factory Island (Saco, ME) |
 Northern parula with caterpillar (Maryland, USA) |
External links
- Northern Parula videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Northern Parula - Parula americana - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Northern Parula Information - South Dakota Birds and Birding
- Northern Parula Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Stamps (for Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands) with RangeMap
- Northern Parula photo gallery VIREO
