Often the smallest you might find in a mixed flock – they also stand out from the rest because of their luminous yellow breast and throat

These birds, often the smallest in a mixed flock, stand out with their short pointed beak, white eye arcs, and yellow breast.

The northern parula (Setophaga americana) is a little 11-cm-long bird with blue gray upper parts, a greenish back patch, and two white wing bars.

The breast is yellowish, decreasing to white at the belly.

Thus, the male has bluish to rufous breast bands and conspicuous white eye crescents in the summer.

Northern Parula breeds in southeast Canada and the western portion of the United States.

They often spend the winter in Florida, southern Mexico, and the Caribbean.

One can find northern parulas frequently in and around hardwood woods, pine-oak woodlands, cypress swamps.

And hardwood swamps, where Old Man’s Beard lichen or Spanish moss.

A preferred nesting material, abounds.

They spend the winter in a variety of forested settings.

Northern Parula is an insectivorous bird that feeds on a variety of insects and spiders.

In a hollowed-out tangle of hanging Old Man’s Beard and possibly lichen.

Finely shredded moss, fine grasses, plant down, or animal hairs are frequently used to line the inside.\

The female produces 4-5 white or cream eggs with brown flecks that incubate for 12 to 14 days.

The chicks leave the nest 11 to 12 days after hatching.

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