parula

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As I step out the door, headed for a morning of ricefield birding with friends from Baton Rouge, the unmistakable spring breeding song of a northern parula warbler erupts from atop the big Mexican cypress tree near the garage.

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  • As I step out the door, headed for a morning of ricefield birding with friends from Baton Rouge, the unmistakable spring breeding song of a northern parula warbler erupts from atop the big Mexican cypress tree near the garage. —  theadvertiser.com -
  • Other early arrivals include a parula warbler on March 30 in Oak Bluffs and an indigo bunting on April 2 on Chappaquiddick. —  The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines
  • From the coasts of Cameron and Vermilion parishes, the brilliantly plumaged travelers find their way into the hardwood bottomlands of Lafayette, where with a pair of binoculars you can catch beauties like parula warblers and painted buntings. —  The Independent Weekly
  • He delights in the song of the parula, "chichichichiChiCHICHI!" —  The Independent Weekly
  • When we hear of the parula warbler or of the Cape May warbler we get no idea of the appearance of the bird, but when we know that the black-throated green warblers begin to appear in April, the first good view of one of this species will proclaim him as such. —  The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
 

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