Which flycatcher? Sámara, Costa Rica (1 Viewer)

LazDivaz

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• Feb 11, 2019

• #1

Having trouble identifying this flycatcher spotted in the early morning in coastal woods. Would not lower his head for me, and was quite distant. Please help! Many thanks.

 

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JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Feb 11, 2019

• #2

Yellow-throated Vireo

 

LazDivaz

Well-known member

• Feb 11, 2019

• #3

Thanks, JWN. I am so glad now that I asked my birding chum whether she thought it could have been a Vireo. Yippee.

 

njlarsen

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• Feb 11, 2019

• #4

Sorry but disagree. The yellow seems to go back to far on the underside and the bill looks more like a warbler than a vireo

Niels

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Feb 12, 2019

• #5

Similar extent of yellow on these...

https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/yetvir/overview

https://www.larkwire.com/library/bird-sounds/1294/Yellow-throated-Vireo-songs-and-calls

and a comparable angle of the bill...

https://rtpi.org/yellow-throated-vireo-2/

Combination of yellow throat/breast and white wingbars would put Pine Warbler in the frame, but the undertail is wrong (all dark).

I'm still firmly in the Yellow-throated Vireo camp.

 

njlarsen

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #6

Thanks for the rebuttal, I am convinced you are right now.

Niels