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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: BetCrooks on May 14, 2014, 10:04:19 AM

Title: a mystery warbler
Post by: BetCrooks on May 14, 2014, 10:04:19 AM

Lakeside was full of Yellow Warblers but this doesn't look like the rest of them. Any suggestions?

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Title: Re: a mystery warbler
Post by: Steve Hood on May 14, 2014, 10:30:13 AM

It could be a subspecies of yellow warbler.  I found this information at All About Birds.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yell ... dium=email (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow_Warbler/id?utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=dfe63bc606-Cornell_Lab_eNews_March_20123_8_2012&utm_medium=email)

"Various subspecies that live year-round in the Caribbean and in mangrove forests of Central and South America have bright chestnut on the crown or over the entire head; these subspecies are often referred to as “Golden” or “Mangrove” Yellow Warblers."

Title: Re: a mystery warbler
Post by: Pat Hodgson on May 14, 2014, 11:49:22 AM

It is a Cape May warbler.

Title: Re: a mystery warbler
Post by: BetCrooks on May 14, 2014, 06:56:16 PM

Thank you to you both! The yellow warbler info was interesting reading for future trips too!