Northern Parula
Setophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Parulidae — New World Warblers
Northern Parula Setophaga americana is a migratory New World warbler that breeds in south-central and south-eastern Canada and in central and eastern USA, and spends the non-breeding season in Massachusetts and the West Indies. It is a small bird of eastern North America. Its breeding places are moist woodland, with northern birds using mature conifer forest and southern birds favouring mature bottomland forest where Spanish moss grows. It nests in trees among hanging lichens or moss, often close to water, and the nest is a cup lined with plant material and other soft fibres.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Parulidae — New World Warblers
- Breeding range
- North America: sc, se Canada and c, e USA
- Nonbreeding range
- MA and West Indies
