Bird Help - Alberta, Canada (1 Viewer)

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AlainaLee

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #1

1 - I think this guy is a mountain chickadee? ANy way to tell?
2-4 - A vireo maybe??
5 - possibly a golden crowned kinglet??

Thank you for any help!!

 

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bobthebirder

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #2

I wouldn't like to call the chickadee from this angle, but you could well be right. 2-4 are a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. No 5 does look like a Golden-crowned Kinglet.

 

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AlainaLee

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #3

Wow i didnt realize the ruby crowned was so yellow!! thank you!

 

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DarkFireFalcon

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #4

Speculating wildly and recklessly, I'd posit that Boreal Chickadee is more likely, with that apparently brown cap.

 

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AlainaLee

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #5

oh man I would love to know that.. we searched for 3 days for those buggers.. LOL..
I do know that Mountain chickadees we spotted in that area about an hour (or 3) later..

 

RJP

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #6

Alaina, was the Chickadee vocalizing? Mountain would be quite distinct from Boreal. Mountains sound quite a bit like Black-cappeds. Boreals have a very distinctive wheezy sound - search them on the net and listen.

 

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DarkFireFalcon

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• Apr 24, 2014

• #7

Where, roughly, in Alberta were you?

 

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AlainaLee

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• Apr 25, 2014

• #8

I honestly do not remember what they sound like unfortunately

Banff - Cave and Basin specifically