Tropical Parula

The Tropical Parula, Parula pitiayumi, is a small New World warbler. It breeds from southernmost Texas and northwest Mexico south through Central America to northern Argentina, including Trinidad and Tobago. This widespread and common species is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

The Tropical Parula is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Tropical Parula, Parula pitiayumi, is a small New World warbler. It breeds from southernmost Texas and northwest Mexico (Sonora) south through Central America to northern Argentina, including Trinidad and Tobago. This widespread and common species is not considered threatened by the IUCN. This passerine is not migratory, but northern birds may make local movements. For example, although it does not breed in much of Pacific Central America, it is a regular vagrant to countries like El Salvador. More

Valley, Tropical Parula is a locally common summer resident in Kenedy County (Kenedy, King, and Armstrong Ranches). Habitat: Summer habitat includes tall moss-draped cedar elm and hackberry trees of the Rio Grande corridor. Winter birds may also be found in urban environs, where Texas ebony and other large native trees are found. North of the Valley, breeding habitat consists of live oak woodlands. More

The immature Tropical Parula is dull plumaged, lacks the wing bars, and has a grey band on the breast. The Tropical Parula has about 14 subspecies, with a wide range of plumage tones. Some (especially insular ones) are considered separate species by various authorities. P. pitiayumi has occasionally been lumped with the closely related Northern Parula (P. americana) as a single species. More

An unusual female Tropical Parula in TX * Home * Gallery * Central Park - All photos and text copyright More

Tropical parula: Native to Mexico and rare in southern Texas along the lower Rio Grande. Prefers thick riparian woods abundant in Spanish moss. Listen to Call Voice Text "zeeeeeeee-yip", "zzzzzzzirrrrrrrrrrr" Interesting Facts * The Tropical Parula has occasionally been lumped with the closely related Northern Parula as a single species. More

Asscherick, reported having seen a Tropical Parula on a visit a few days previously, so the OG set about trying to locate the bird in the oak trees by the parking area on the north side of Elm Lake. Thanks to Adam Wood, our field trip organizer, the parula was refound and my husband and I were able to get several photos, proving that it is a Tropical Parula and not the Northern Parula, which nests in the park in the summer. More

Most Tropical Parulas can be distinguished from the Northern Parula by their lack of white eye crescents, but this may be ambiguous in hybrids. One should also look for the distribution and extent of non-yellow coloration on the breast, and the extent of yellow on the malar and belly. In addition, a partially leucistic Tropical Parula female was seen in 2005, at Reserva Buenaventura in El Oro Province, Ecuador. More

Distribution of the Tropical Parula in North and Central America. Formerly called Sennett’s Warbler, Olive-backed Warbler, Pitiayumi Warbler, and Tropical Parula Warbler, the Tropical Parula is one of several species of birds whose breeding range in North America is restricted to extreme southern Texas. This species occupies a wide latitud-inal range—through Mexico and Central and South America as far south as northern Argentina. More

this is within the range of variation for Tropical Parula is not known by me. Or is this an artifact of the photograph? Photos copyright of Erik I. Johnson 2008. Please contact me at "ejohn33 AT lsu DOT edu" if you would like to use these photos. More

Tropical parula: Song is an insect-like buzzing. . Home | Search | Browser | Expert | Forum | Store | My Whatbird | Help | Site Map © 2002 - 2007 www.whatbird.com All rights reserved. No part of this web site may be reproduced without written permission from Mitch Waite Group. Privacy Policy site stats Quantcast Percevia® Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. More

I have had two inquiries about Tropical Parula in the last 24 hours, prompted by a bird currently in Austin, Texas. You can check out that bird in photos by Andy Balinsky and photos and some background by Martin Reid. It has the throat pattern and extensively yellow underparts of Tropical Parula, but the pale eye-crescents and the extensively green crown of Northern. In The Sibley Guide to Birds I illustrated a drab Tropical Parula with faint pale eye crescents, which is now the focus of questions. More

Is the northeast Mexican population of Tropical Parula just part of a cline between Northerns and true Tropicals to the south? (Tony Gallucci has some interesting comments on this) Should they be considered all one species? Fascinating. Related posts: 1. More

The Tropical Parula (Parula pitiayumi) is essentially a Mexican species, but it may be found in deep south Texas as well. It is similar in voice, plumage, and behavior to the Northern Parula (Parula americana) but lacks the black on the breast of that species as typically shows only a blackish mask, lacking the white eye-ring or partial eye-ring of Northern Parula. The top 12 shots on this page show a male Tropical Parula in Sarita, Kenedy Co., Texas, in April, 2009. More

This Tropical Parula Parula pitiayumi-type bird was singing at Anzalduas County Park, Hidalgo County, TX on May 14, 2005: Note following features that suggest this bird has some Northern Parula Parula americana genes in it:- - the strong white crescents below the eye on the right side and both above and below the eye on the left side. - the yellow of the breast-sides/flanks ending only just level with the lower wing bar (and short of it in the center of the breast. More