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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on May 11, 2014, 09:37:25 PM

Title: ABB Bird ID
Post by: Dinusaur on May 11, 2014, 09:37:25 PM

Please help in ID'ing the following:
#1 & #2: Same bird - two different frames
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7458/13978591228_c34ae7a031_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nieWaA)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5231/14165309074_441c63a4fc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nzJUSN)

#3  Some kind of Flycatcher with apparent crest- not sure what
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/13978564419_a09389af6c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nieNcn)

#4 Veery? With sun behind the bird the color didn't come out right.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2924/13978573217_da084ce92d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nieQP4)

Title: Re: ABB Bird ID
Post by: thouc on May 11, 2014, 09:58:53 PM

1-2. Black-throated Green Warbler
3. An Empidonax, my guess would be Willow, but song is required to separate it from Alder with certainty.
4. Swainson's Thrush (Veery has hardly any spotting on the breast)

Title: Re: ABB Bird ID
Post by: mc on May 12, 2014, 08:32:47 PM

Quote from: "thouc"

1-2. Black-throated Green Warbler
3. An Empidonax, my guess would be Willow, but song is required to separate it from Alder with certainty.
4. Swainson's Thrush (Veery has hardly any spotting on the breast)

Thouc ..... For the swainsons......identifying features?.....eye ring??

Title: Re: ABB Bird ID
Post by: thouc on May 12, 2014, 09:52:07 PM

Buffy complete eye-ring, medium spotting on chest and overall brown back and tail.