A tiny bird with blue-gray upper parts, yellow breast, and bright white eye crescents is perched on a branch. This is a Northern Parula. The Northern Parula is one of the smallest of the Wood Warblers. It is 4.4 inches long, with an 8.3 inch wing span, weighing in at only 0.31 ounces. The Northern Parula is only marginally larger than the tiny Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Northern Parulas are long-distance migrants. They winter in Mexico, Central American, and the Caribbean. Their spring migration begins relatively early, but is prolonged. They begin leaving the Caribbean in February, returning to the southern part of their breeding grounds as early as March and to northern areas in May. Northern Parulas reportedly move mainly up the Atlantic coast during the spring migration. Most Northern Parulas arrive here in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York in mid- to late May.
For Jane’s @javajanegallery.co.uk #smallbirdsaturday, here’s a Northern Parula. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...
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