Yelllow-rump Warbler? Canada-Alberta (Sept '16) (1 Viewer)

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Vagabren

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #1

This should be so obvious I know, but somehow these guys always trip me up. And I have just read that there is a regional differences between the west (where these photos were taken) and the east (where I am used to seeing YRW). Can it be anything other than a TRW though?

thanks, Brenda

 

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mordovarot

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #2

Yellow rump is clearly seen on photo 2 and other features ok. I don't think another option is possible.

 

steveMc

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #3

Agreed. Yellow rump (picture #2) coupled with yellow spot on side of the breast is diagnostic for Yellow-rumped.

 

Nutcracker

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #4

Vagabren said:

And I have just read that there is a regional differences between the west (where these photos were taken) and the east

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These are Myrtle Warblers (the eastern one); note the whiter throat (yellow in adult Audubon's, yellow-tinged in juvenile Audubon's) and streaked flanks (more solid buffy-toned in juvenile Audubon's).

It isn't purely an east-west regional difference, more an 'east-and-north' versus 'west/southwest' - the Yellow-rumpeds in most of Alaska and northern Canada are Myrtle, not Audubon's.

 

KC Foggin

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #5

Most definitely a Yellow-rumped Warbler.

 

Andy Hurley

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• Oct 21, 2016

• #6

KC Foggin said:

Most definitely a Yellow-rumped Warbler.

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Agree with you. This one is a first winter female

Agree with Myrtle too

 

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Vagabren

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• Oct 22, 2016

• #7

thanks all!