Warbler ID help
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Warbler ID help

JW Mills

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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.)%20-%20Parulidae%20sp.
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Shortsighted

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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.
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JW Mills

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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.
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Shortsighted

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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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!
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