Tropical Parula: Small warbler with blue-gray upperparts, black
mask, yellow chin, throat, breast, and upper belly with a
diffused orange breast band, white lower belly, undertail
coverts. Blue-gray wings have white bars. Lack of a white eye
ring and dark mask set it apart from the Northern Parula. Range
and Habitat Tropical parula: Native to Mexico and rare in
southern Texas along the lower Rio Grande. Prefers thick
riparian woods abundant in Spanish moss. The wood-warblers are
one of the one hundred eighteen families of birds in the order
PASSERIFORMES (pronounced pas-ser-i-FOR-meez); a large taxonomic
order that includes other small perching birds such as the
vireos, the white-eyes, and the tanagers. The wood-warblers, or
Parulidae (pronounced pah-ROO-luh-dee), are a large family of
one hundred and twenty-two species in twenty-six genera that
only occur in North and South America. North America has ninety
species of wood-warblers in twenty-six genera; included in this
family are the yellowthroats, a seemin