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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: aviator on July 24, 2014, 09:11:42 PM

Title: Vireo or warbler.Help appreciated
Post by: aviator on July 24, 2014, 09:11:42 PM

Unknown bird in RI, USA


(http://img902.imageshack.us/img902/1755/7ae85c.jpg) (http://imageshack.com/i/p27ae85cj)

Title: Re: Vireo or warbler.Help appreciated
Post by: Brian Bailey on July 24, 2014, 11:16:45 PM

The shape says "flycatcher" to me, but the markings are a puzzle.  Maybe a juvenile Great Crested Flycatcher?

BB

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Title: Re: Vireo or warbler.Help appreciated
Post by: thouc on July 25, 2014, 08:40:22 AM

It's an Empidonax Flycatcher. Note orange lower mandible of the bill and wing bars. Probably Willow Flycatcher as it lacks eye-ring. Strange to see it on the ground like that.

/Thomas

Title: Re: Vireo or warbler.Help appreciated
Post by: aviator on July 25, 2014, 09:30:42 AM

Thank you. Didn't think of flycatcher. Many Chipping sparrows, Chickadees and Titmice also on and off the ground.