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Bird name:

Tropical Parula

Parula pitiayumi

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Code 4

TRPA

Code 6

PARPIT

ITIS

178869

Breeding Location:

Wooded areas near water

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Rare to uncommon

Egg Color:

Creamy white with small brown spots at large end

Number of Eggs:

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Bark, mosses, roots, grasses, hair, feathers

Migration:

Nonmigratory

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General

Tropical Parula: Small warbler with blue-gray upperparts, dark black mask (usually without white eye-rings), yellow chin, throat, breast, and upper belly with a diffused orange breast band, and white lower belly and undertail coverts; wings show two white bars. Female is duller, shows only faint breast band, and lacks dark mask. Juvenile resembles female but lacks breast band.

Range and Habitat

Tropical parula: Native to Mexico and rare in southern Texas along the lower Rio Grande. Prefers thick riparian woods abundant in Spanish moss.

Breeding and Nesting

Tropical parula: Three to four white eggs with brown spots at the large end, are laid in a nest of bark, moss, grass and hair, lined with feathers and set in pockets of Spanish moss or hanging on vines eight to forty feet above the ground.

Foraging and Feeding

Tropical parula: Eats bees, wasps, flies, caterpillars, and some berries.

Vocalization

Tropical parula: Song is an insect-like buzzing.

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Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Chin

The area of the face just below the bill.

Riparian

Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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