Photo of the Week: Northern Parula

A disheveled small bird with yellow bill, gray cap, black-streaked white underbelly, and pinkish legs perched on a branch looking sideways. Muted green leaves in the background.

When I saw the small bird preening in the filtered sunlight of an understory tree at Nichols Arboretum, I wasn’t sure what bird it was.

It was puffed up and wet.

With a yellow throat, gray cap, yellow lower bill, and what looked like black streaking on a white breast.

From it’s size, I could tell it was a warbler.

But which one?

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