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Registration is
open for
October 23 Bird-A-Thon
at Princess Place Preserve.
Proceeds shared by Flagler Audubon and Princess
Place. Teams may want to join HRA's field trip on October
22 to scout the property. |
Registration Open for 2010 Bird ID Class
Learn how to identify birds by
sight and by ear, where to find birds and how to use your
binoculars. |
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June 1, 2010...Many wood warblers
arrive in central Florida for a week or two in the spring on
their trip to northern breeding grounds. The Northern
Parula (parula americana) winters in south Florida
and may travel north into Canada to breed, but some pairs only
make a short flight and remain here in Volusia County to raise
their families. Wooded areas, often near water, as well as
suburban neighborhoods are the summer breeding grounds for this
beautiful small warbler. Both sexes have lovely blue/gray
upperparts, bold wing-bars, yellow throats and lower mandibles
(note the yellow color continuing from the chin up into the
bottom of the bird's bill in the photo to the right) and white
eye-arcs. Adult males in breeding plumage show a black and
rufous breast band. The Northern Parula's song, a rather
unmusical rising buzz which ends in a distinctive, sharp final
note can be heard throughout the day, but especially in the
morning, even when the birds are on their nests. Chuck
Tague captured this image at Emeralda Marsh during an HRA
field trip. |
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