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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Luv2Bird on March 01, 2010, 09:02:06 PM

Title: Just one more - very small - Philadelphia Vireo ?
Post by: Luv2Bird on March 01, 2010, 09:02:06 PM

Is this a Philadelphia Vireo ?  -- taken Aug. 1/09  Looked and looked and could not come up with a defintive ID.
Thanks !

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pVoVsVdNXso/SouAsSZe3oI/AAAAAAAAC0Y/n8Ecl0HGOCw/s640/_DSC0634.JPG)

Title: Fledgling Red-eyed Vireo
Post by: Iain on March 01, 2010, 10:36:36 PM

This is a little more difficult because its a young bird but I'd go with Red-eyed because of the white breast and extensive white above and behind the eye.  I don't believe the eye turns red until the bird has matured.

Was this bird seen in Mississauga?

Iain

Title: Fledgling - Red-eyed- Vireo
Post by: Luv2Bird on March 01, 2010, 11:44:19 PM

Thanks  ... you are probably correct.  Agree that it looks like a very young bird which makes ID challenging.   It was taken last August near Thunder Bay.