Parula Warbler
Monhegan Island, Maine
Thankfully, these beautiful birds are still a reasonably common migrant through our parts—while many of their warbler cousins are nowhere near as plentiful as years past. Habitat loss—in North America as well as in their wintering grounds in the southern half of the continent—is the chief but not only culprit among the many man-made dangers that these tiny insectivores face.
As Parulas will, this male was singing all the while as he clambered around in the Apple Tree, vacuuming up bugs attracted to the blossoms.