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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: JW Mills on July 18, 2019, 05:43:30 PM

Title: Warbler ID help
Post by: JW Mills on July 18, 2019, 05:43:30 PM

We found this bird at Point Pelee on May 15 of this year.
I no longer have an account with a photo hosting site so I am including a link to the photos in eBird.
Click on a photo to enlarge it.
 
https://ebird.org/media/canada/catalog? ... lidae%20sp (https://ebird.org/media/canada/catalog?taxonCode=warble&mediaType=p&searchField=user&regionCode=CA-ON&userId=USER538701&subId=S56427209&q=JW%20Mills%20%26%20ZA%20Lloyd&species=warbler%20sp.%20(Parulidae%20sp).)%20-%20Parulidae%20sp.

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: Shortsighted on July 18, 2019, 06:01:13 PM

The bill size, overall shape (profile), faint wing bars, faint eye line and je ne sais quoi
makes me think of juvenile Pine warbler. Oh my, I just realized that you made me think.
Nice move, you tricked me into thinking.

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: JW Mills on July 19, 2019, 05:17:19 PM

Quote from: "Shortsighted"

The bill size, overall shape (profile), faint wing bars, faint eye line and je ne sais quoi
makes me think of juvenile Pine warbler. Oh my, I just realized that you made me think.
Nice move, you tricked me into thinking.

Thanks for the ID, but I'm a little confused. We saw this bird in mid-May and I don't recall seeing juveniles at that time of year.

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: Shortsighted on July 19, 2019, 07:21:57 PM

Juveniles can look like females but cleaner.
I photographed juvenile Golden-crowned Kinglets in April.
They also looked a little moth-eaten and rough, with spotting
and blotching.

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: Dinusaur on July 19, 2019, 08:22:00 PM

Isn't that eye-ring too big for a Pine? How about a female Bay-breasted that hasn't fully molted yet in its breeding plumage?

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: Shortsighted on July 19, 2019, 08:46:00 PM

Bay-breasted eye-ring?
Sure, why not. It's blurred enough that
I don't know what I'm looking at. I've
only seen Bay-breasted females a few
times and they can easily fool me, as
can the lid on some containers.

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: thouc on July 24, 2019, 10:55:09 AM

I'm pretty sure it's an immature female Pine Warbler, they can be drab even in May, see the picture taken May 11 in the link below.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id


/Thomas

Title: Re: Warbler ID help
Post by: JW Mills on July 24, 2019, 05:05:33 PM

Quote from: "thouc"

I'm pretty sure it's an immature female Pine Warbler, they can be drab even in May, see the picture taken May 11 in the link below.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Warbler/id


/Thomas

Thanks Thomas!