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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: argo12 on March 25, 2019, 09:45:36 AM

Title: Assistance with Yellow Bird
Post by: argo12 on March 25, 2019, 09:45:36 AM

Shot in Santa Cruz CA earlier this month.
Trying to determine species.
Any help is appreciated

Title: Re: Assistance with Yellow Bird
Post by: Shortsighted on March 25, 2019, 02:51:55 PM

Your mystery bird is shaped like a Bushtit but it has too much yellow.
Yellow around the bill suggests a Verdin (adult female) perhaps.
I've never been to California so I've never actually seen one.

Title: Re: Assistance with Yellow Bird
Post by: argo12 on March 26, 2019, 04:10:06 PM

Thanks for your thoughts Shortsighted.
I have checked with a couple of my BC birding buddies and they say it is a Bushtit that is covered in pollen!
There 2nd choice was a Verdin but they are confident it is a Bush.

Thanks for help, never know what you will see!

Title: Re: Assistance with Yellow Bird
Post by: winz on March 26, 2019, 10:33:35 PM

I have seen both Bushtit and Verdin.  Bushtit in CA and Verdin in NV.  As info, there has never been a sighting of Verdin in Santa Cruz CA per eBird.  They don't get that far north in California.

Title: Re: Assistance with Yellow Bird
Post by: Canoncan on April 05, 2019, 07:04:36 AM

I have seen and photographed Bushtit"s numerous times in California, this is a bushtit based on features of bird. Yellow may be pollen, but there is no other bird in CA that this would be if not a Bushtit