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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
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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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| New TEE SHIRTS now available in our Store. | |
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