Help to ID birds (Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, April 2015) (1 Viewer)

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Vagabren

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• May 3, 2015

• #1

I suspect these are thrushes, but not sure which ones.

Can anyone help?

thanks, Brenda

 

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Larry Sweetland

Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'

• May 3, 2015

• #2

Know zilch about what occurs in Yucatan, but to get things started

1. looks like Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
2. looks to be a Myiodynastes flycatcher, eg Sulphur-bellied or Streaked.
3. I'd look at femaletype plumages of Passerina buntings or maybe Blueblack Grassquit

 

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Vagabren

Well-known member

• May 4, 2015

• #3

Thanks Larry, I found what appears to be a comprehensive list of birds forund in the Yucatan.
http://www.birdingyucatan.com/Documents/list.pdf

I think you are right about the sulphur-bellied flycatcher for #2.
For #1, your suggestion is not on this list, so if you are right then it would be rather unusual I suppose.
For #3, mmmm. The shape doesn't seem right for a Blueblack Grassquit. But I am a total novice!

Brenda

 

TLeukering

Well-known member

• May 4, 2015

• #4

1. Red-throated Ant-Tanager
2. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher (very wide lateral throat stripes rule out Streaked)
3. Though Indigo Bunting-like, no April plumage of that species (or of Lazuli Bunting or Blue Grosbeak) should be so pale below and obviously streaked, so Blue-black Grassquit seems reasonable.