Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: aviator on March 28, 2018, 08:47:57 AM

Title: Georgia unknown
Post by: aviator on March 28, 2018, 08:47:57 AM

Looks like a warbler but eating at a feeder. I.D. would be appreciated.

(https://i.imgur.com/0XLboAn.jpg)

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: lucky tern on March 28, 2018, 11:31:32 AM

pine siskin

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: aviator on March 28, 2018, 07:43:16 PM

Thank you. I was looking for more yellow colouration on a pine siskin.

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: orchidpoet on April 01, 2018, 03:17:09 PM

Could it be a female house finch?

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: aviator on April 02, 2018, 09:22:09 AM

Bill and belly look less finchlike. Some shots looked like a juvenile yellow-rumped warbler
House finches
(https://i.imgur.com/ysaYqsp.jpg)
Pine siskin?
(https://i.imgur.com/XWy0lWx.jpg)

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: thouc on April 02, 2018, 10:30:26 AM

Yes, House Finches above and Pine Siskins below.

/Thomas

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: Brown-headed Birder on April 02, 2018, 06:20:22 PM

If you look very closely at the first photo (you may have to zoom on the image) you can also see a bit of the yellow streak on the wing found in siskins.

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: lucky tern on April 03, 2018, 09:05:41 AM

pine siskin = smallish bill, steaking on head, forked tail, yellowish wing bars, black on wings
house finches don't have any of these
yellow-rumped warblers would have an even narrower bill, longer tail with white undertail with black outer feathers, white throat, etc

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: aviator on April 04, 2018, 09:28:17 AM

Thank you all for the input. The following were at the feeder at about the same time as the finches and may have contributed to the confusion.
Yellow-rumped warbler (juvenile quite different)
(https://i.imgur.com/LyTu7HQ.jpg)
Pine siskin
(https://i.imgur.com/dHR3Dj3.jpg)
And keeping an eye on it all!
(https://i.imgur.com/qmKxUe7.jpg)

Title: Re: Georgia unknown
Post by: Ally on April 04, 2018, 12:24:34 PM

Love the hawk eye!