Definition of Northern parula

1. Noun. Small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Parula Americana, Parula Warbler
Generic synonyms: New World Warbler, Wood Warbler
Group relationships: Genus Parula, Parula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Parula

northern firmosses
northern flicker
northern flickers
northern flying squirrel
northern harrier
northern hawk owl
northern hawk owls
northern hemisphere
northern holly fern
northern lapwing
northern lapwings
northern lights
northern mammoth
northern oak fern
northern oriole
northern parula (current term)
northern phalarope
northern pike
northern pikes
northern pin oak
northern pitch pine
northern pocket gopher
northern porgy
northern raven
northern red-backed vole
northern red oak
northern screamer
northern scup
northern sea robin
northern shoveler

Literary usage of Northern parula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"On Sept 6th, the wood thrush, whip-poor-will and wood pewee were noted for the last time, a flock of northern Parula warblers appeared, and a Phila delphia ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"The species of more southern or general distribution are the Black-and-White, Worm-eating, Yellow, Hooded and northern parula Warblers, the Northern Yellow- ..."

3. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1900)
"The Parula Warbler is the southern form, occur- ing in the south Atlantic and Gulf states, north in the interior to Mt. Carmel, 111. ; the northern parula ..."

4. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1903)
"northern parula Warbler. 59. Western Parula Warbler, and (Hypothetical) Parula Warbler. 52. Worm-eating Warbler. 57. Tennessee Warbler. 56. ..."

5. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"Parula warblers have been subdivided and are described as northern parula and the parula. As usual we find the larger or hardie^ bird visits the more ..."

6. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1900)
"northern parula Warbler. Present knowledge of the pa rula warbler does not ... The northern parula warbler—including under this head the individuals that ..."

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