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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: What was that? on October 17, 2009, 05:58:04 PM

Title: Unknown, Humber Bay
Post by: What was that? on October 17, 2009, 05:58:04 PM

Any ideas?
First thoght it was a ruby crowned kinglet, but the book picture just doesn't seem the same.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4020589882/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4020589882/)

Thanks
Graham

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Post by: Mark D on October 17, 2009, 06:12:34 PM

I think it might be a orange crowned warbler, but I'm not sure.

Mark

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Post by: Brian Bailey on October 17, 2009, 11:31:49 PM

I'll second the Orange-crowned Warbler.

Nice find and nice photo!

BB

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Post by: What was that? on October 18, 2009, 01:41:36 PM

In that case, that is a first for my wife and I.

Thank you Mark and Brian very much for the help.
Graham

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Post by: GStuart on October 18, 2009, 08:57:34 PM

I'm just wondering what field marks you look for so you can distinguish it from a Nashville Warbler?

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Post by: Brian Bailey on October 19, 2009, 09:43:04 PM

They are generally quite undistinctive and easily passed off as a Nashville, Tennessee, or female Yellow.

They always have an eyeline:  sometimes barely noticeable like this one, other individuals have quite distinct ones.
They have a broken eye ring versus the full eye ring of a Nashville.
There is often some green on the head.  I don't think you'll see that in any Nashville plumage.

Fall warblers are tricky, and Orange-crowned are one of the trickiest.

There's a nice photo on the OFO's October page: http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/current/O ... leraw.html (http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/current/October/slides/OrangecrownedWarbleraw.html)

BB

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Post by: GStuart on October 21, 2009, 10:06:23 AM

I guess that would account for why I think Nashville is such a common fall warbler and why I never see Orange-crowneds.  

Thank you.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on October 21, 2009, 12:35:44 PM

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I guess that would account for why I think Nashville is such a common fall warbler and why I never see Orange-crowneds.  

Thank you.

Well, only in part.  Nashvilles are a lot more common.  Orange-crowned are tough to find in Toronto in any season.

BB