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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: jackbreakfast on May 27, 2014, 10:50:10 AM

Title: warbler ID, please
Post by: jackbreakfast on May 27, 2014, 10:50:10 AM

Hello fine folks
Did I accidentally photograph an orange-crowned warbler? I'm pretty dumb about this, but I guess I'm learning. Or possibly not! Anyhow, your help would be v. much appreciated. This is only approx. 10% of the original capture so please forgive the disgusting quality. Many thanks!
(http://www.smallbirdsongs.com/birds/oc1.jpg)
(http://www.smallbirdsongs.com/birds/oc2.jpg)

Title: Re: warbler ID, please
Post by: thouc on May 27, 2014, 11:10:27 AM

It looks like it have some orange on the crown and yellow undertail coverts, so you are right, Orange-crowned Warbler.

Title: Re: warbler ID, please
Post by: jackbreakfast on May 27, 2014, 11:22:52 AM

Many thanks. From what I understand, it is a warbler one can see without knowing for certain that one has seen it? The tennessee confusion is always a possibility. But that orange in the crown, slight though it was, tipped off my semi-dim brain!

Title: Re: warbler ID, please
Post by: thouc on May 27, 2014, 12:27:38 PM

The undertail coverts is the safest way to tell Orange-crowned (yellow) and Tennessee (white) apart.