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Old Saturday 1st September 2012, 22:54   #1
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Migrating warblers/perchers IDs - Florida

Looks like winter migration is kicking into gear - last week in the same spot in Delray Beach Florida I saw a single perching bird - likely a black and white warbler. This weekend, totally different - at least 8-10 different species all throughout the trees. Problem is, I'm still not great in distinguishing the various seasonal colors and sex colors for warblers and other similar small birds, so I was only able to confidently ID some of the ones I saw. Clear were the B&W wablers, pine warblers, palm warblers, and yellow-throated warblers. Unclear were the following ones which I need some help figuring out...

1. http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69136/original

This was mostly yellow, no distinct eye markings or head colors other than yellow - and the beak seemed a bit long for most warblers. Wings were mostly olive-greyish.

2. http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69138/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69139/original

This wasn't any warbler I can recall ever seeing before...I tried looking it up online, and the only species that seemed to have this distinct of head striping was the worm-eating warbler...so that's my guess, but would love some firm backup.

3. http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69140/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69141/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69142/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69143/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69144/original

http://www.pbase.com/zackiedawg/imag...69146/original

Lots of views of this one - I couldn't identify it at all in the warbler lists - the wing markings have me thinking more along the lines of a vireo...but it doesn't look like a white-eyed, nor a blue-headed...and those are the only two vireos I have past experience with. Then again, it might even be something else than a vireo. Any ideas?

Many thanks for the help...and sorry for the low quality photos - they were all in horrible deep shadow and poor light, mostly manually focused at high ISO, and I didn't take any time to process them or anything - I just grabbed them straight from the camera and cropped significantly to use these strictly for IDs.


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Old Saturday 1st September 2012, 22:57   #2
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1. Prothonotary Warbler
2. Worm-eating Warbler
3. Northern Parula.

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Excellent...thank you both. This would be good news as this adds at least 2 birds to my list - I've never seen the worm-eating before, nor the prothonotary. The parula has tricked me before - I've only ever gotten a partial shot of them through heavy leaves and mostly noticed the bolder blue colors than this one showed. So I've seen one before, but not well enough to firmly ID. Though next time, I'll be more familiar with it!
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