Tropical Parula

Parula pitiayumiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: TRPA Scientific Name: PARPIT ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178869

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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.

● 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

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.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Tropical Parula

Tropical Parula

Flight Pattern