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Tropical Parula

Parula pitiayumiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Codes: Common Name: TRPA Scientific Name: PARPIT ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178869
Least Concern
 
Tropical parula
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Overview

Tropical Parula: Small warbler with blue-gray upperparts, black mask, yellow chin, throat, breast, and upper belly with a diffused orange breast band, white lower belly, undertail coverts. Blue-gray wings have white bars. Lack of a white eye ring and dark mask set it apart from the Northern Parula.

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.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Listen to Call

Similar Sounding

Voice Text

"zeeeeeeee-yip", "zzzzzzzirrrrrrrrrrr"

Interesting Facts

 A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.


Bird Term Glossary



Author

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Range Map for Tropical parula

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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Parula pitiayumi
Length4 - 4.5 Inches
Wingspan7 Inches

Tropical Parula

Tropical Parula: Small warbler with blue-gray upperparts, black mask, yellow chin, throat, breast, and upper belly with a diffused orange breast band, white lower belly, undertail coverts. Blue-gray wings have white bars. Lack of a white eye ring and dark mask set it apart from the Northern Parula.

● Song: "zeeeeeeee-yip", "zzzzzzzirrrrrrrrrrr"

● Foraging & Feeding: Tropical parula: Eats bees, wasps, flies, caterpillars, and some berries.

● Breeding & 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.

● Similar species:

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats. Hawks insects by flying forth to take them in air and returning to perch.
Tropical parula Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Tropical parula: Native to Mexico and rare in southern Texas along the lower Rio Grande. Prefers thick riparian woods abundant in Spanish moss.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationRare to uncommon
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.1 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
Undertail covertsX
Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BellyX
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.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
ChinX
The area of the face just below the bill.
Eye ringX
The circle around the eye formed of feathers that are a different color from the rest of the face.
RiparianX
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 codesX

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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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX