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Photo by Paulyoly
Photographed in Interlachen, Florida.

Photo by Nomceploom
Location: Everglades National Park, Florida, USA.

Parula americana

[edit] Identification

4-4.3". Grey blue head and upperparts, black lores, white eye-crescents, olive back patch, 2 white wingbars, white tail-spots, white broken eye ring, yellow legs. Throat and chest yellow with blackish-slate and rufous band across upper chest. Female: duller.

[edit] Distribution

Breeds in eastern North America migrating south reaching to the Caribbean and Nicaragua

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species

[edit] Habitat

Open woods; prefers woodlands with abundant tree lichens.

[edit] Behaviour

It nest in trees in clumps of these mosses, laying 3-7 eggs in a scantily-lined cup nest.

Diet includes insects and spiders.

Their song is a click-like trill or buzz, zeeeeee-yip. Their call is a soft chip.

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