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Tropical Parula

Parula pitiayumiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Tropical parula Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Dark brown.
  • Head Pattern: Masked
  • Crown Color: Blue-gray
  • Forehead Color: Blue-gray
  • Nape Color: Blue-gray
  • Throat Color: Yellow
  • Cere color: No Data
Tropical parula Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 10-11 cm (4-4.5 in)
  • Weight: 3 g (0.1 oz)
  • Size: Very Small (3 - 5 in)
  • Color Primary: Blue, Yellow
  • Underparts: Yellow with some orange on the breast, white belly and undertail coverts.
  • Upperparts: Dark blue-gray with olive-green patch on back.
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Tropical parula Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats. Hawks insects by flying forth to take them in air and returning to perch.
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Squared Tail
  • Tail Pattern: White edging
  • Upper Tail: Dark blue-gray
  • Under Tail: Dark blue-gray
  • Leg Color: Black
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Family
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