Northern Parula, upside down
Setophaga americana
Northern Parula · Green-Wood Cemetery · 28 September 2025
A Northern Parula working the underside of a twig upside down at Green-Wood in late September, an ordinary foraging posture for a species that spends much of its life gleaning insects from the tips of thin branches. It breeds in the moss-hung forests of the Northeast and passes through the city on its way to the Caribbean.
The yellow-green patch saddling the back is the field mark that gives this one away even from behind. No other regularly occurring warbler carries it.
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