Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Mathew Rossi on May 18, 2009, 10:48:34 PM

Title: Need some help - seen in High Park May 18
Post by: Mathew Rossi on May 18, 2009, 10:48:34 PM

Hi all. I can't figure these out, any assistance appreciated!

(http://www.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/bloglist/EF8CFB9590635CEE852575BB000E3196/$FILE/IMG_2121.jpg)

(http://www.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/bloglist/EF8CFB9590635CEE852575BB000E3196/$FILE/IMG_2132.jpg)

(http://www.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/bloglist/EF8CFB9590635CEE852575BB000E3196/$FILE/IMG_2135.jpg)

(http://www.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/bloglist/EF8CFB9590635CEE852575BB000E3196/$FILE/IMG_2139.jpg)

(http://www.asic.ca/client/asic/photo.nsf/bloglist/EF8CFB9590635CEE852575BB000E3196/$FILE/IMG_2148.jpg)

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on May 19, 2009, 12:10:10 AM

Hi Mathew,

Here's my take on the lot.

1 - Warbling Vireo
2 - Blackburnian Warbler (female)
3 - Black-throated Green Warbler (female)
4 - American Redstart (female)
5 - Bay-breasted Warbler (female)

Walter  :D

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Post by: Mathew Rossi on May 19, 2009, 12:34:29 AM

Thanks!

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Post by: Brian Bailey on May 19, 2009, 10:51:29 PM

It's difficult to be sure from a single image, but I think the first one's a Tennessee Warbler.  The lores look too dark for a Warbling Vireo to me.  The whitish eyeline and distinctly dark cap also don't look right.  The bill looks too pointy for a vireo, but that may be the camera angle.

My first impression was a really drab Red-eyed Vireo, but again, the bill looks too small.

BB

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Post by: cloaca on May 19, 2009, 11:18:15 PM

1.  Red-eyed Vireo.

4.  The Redstart is a male.

5.  The Bay-breasted looks like a male.

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Post by: Kin Lau on May 20, 2009, 01:09:19 AM

I'll go with Red-eyed vireo for #1 as well.

Good call on #4. It looks like a 1st year male American Redstart.

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on May 20, 2009, 06:56:18 AM

Me too!!!  The beak on a Warbling Vireo is a little shorter as well.

Walter  :)