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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: BoboBird on February 08, 2015, 08:52:11 PM

Title: ID please
Post by: BoboBird on February 08, 2015, 08:52:11 PM

Thanks for your assistance.

(http://i57.tinypic.com/dn0fav.jpg)

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: thouc on February 08, 2015, 11:54:36 PM

I'm a bit stumped on this one.

It looks a bit like a Northern Mockingbird, but it lacks the white wing patch and doesn't feel quite right for it.

I cannot come up with a flycatcher that matches either.

Where and when was the picture taken?

/Thomas

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Brian Bailey on February 08, 2015, 11:57:08 PM

My first impression is a juvenile Eastern Wood-Pewee. The all dark bill and yellow eye are making me wonder though.  Is this from Ontario?


BB

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Title: Re: ID please
Post by: BoboBird on February 09, 2015, 12:14:27 AM

Yes, Ontario. Taken in July 2014, Thornhill area. Have not been able to definitively ID the bird all these months.

I will search for other angles of it.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Kris Ito on February 09, 2015, 07:34:42 AM

I agree with Brian on Wood Pewee but maybe it's just immature. It has to be a flycatcher because of all those whiskers (aren't the only other small whiskered birds swallows & goatsuckers??). An immature Pewee would have a darker bill and buffy wing-bars instead of white. To me the eye looks light brown instead of yellow, but I wonder if this is just the bright sun making a brown eye look a little lighter? I haven't been able to find anything about the eye colour of juveniles looking any different. You could also try posting this photo on the ABA's "What's this bird?" Facebook page for additional input.  - kris

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: BoboBird on February 09, 2015, 08:06:36 AM

Thanks Thomas, Brian, Kris.

I will post that on ABA as suggested to be 100% correct.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Canoncan on February 09, 2015, 07:40:41 PM

I believe it is a juvenile Eastern Phoebe, they do have the buffy tan wing bars, the eye colour is more of a reaction to the angle to which the light is hitting it. If you google Juvenile Eastern Phoebe click images you will see several that look exactly like this.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: BoboBird on February 10, 2015, 01:14:38 AM

Thanks Canoncan. Yes they do look identical. Easter Phoebe it is then.
Really quite confusing.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Reuven_M on February 10, 2015, 08:53:00 AM

Phoebe. A pewee would have much longer primaries among other things.