Help with ID please - spectacled warbler or whitethroat? (1 Viewer)

[Golfer1]

Hi, I am in Fuerteventura at present and would appreciate some help with ID of this little bird. Thanks

 

[fredwille]

It is a Spectacled Warbler, Sylvia conspicillata

you se the white ring around the eye and the red-brown wing. / Fred

 

[phil baber]

A fine male Spectacled Warbler.

Nice shot.

PS Also the blackish around the eye and lores. The well-defined dark centered tertials. Short tail. Orangey cast to legs.

 

[davercox]

That is a cracking photo, the bird showing all its main ID features beautifully !

 

[Golfer1]

Thanks for that, he was good at hiding in the bushes!

 

[avidbirder]

All these mediterranean warblers are extremely good at camouflage. I think the real achievement lies in being patient enough to wait for a good shot. Therefore: congratulations!
Good birding!
Avidbirder

 

[MJB]

Hi, I am in Fuerteventura at present and would appreciate some help with ID of this little bird. Thanks

Known in spanish as curruca tomillera... For my own benefit, is this species common/regular in Fuerteventura in winter? No distribution map I can find indicates its occurrence there.
MJB

 

[marcofioratti]

Known in spanish as curruca tomillera... For my own benefit, is this species common/regular in Fuerteventura in winter? No distribution map I can find indicates its occurrence there.
MJB

It is sedentary in Fuerteventura, and by far the most common Sylvia species on the island.

 

[MJB]

It is sedentary in Fuerteventura, and by far the most common Sylvia species on the island.

Thank you Marco F. It is largely sedentary also in Cyprus. Do the biometrics chow a shorter average wing-length than migratory populations? (cf sedentary isalnd populatins of Blackcap).
MJB