Aberrant Tennessee Warbler? in Cuba (1 Viewer)

Douwe

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• Sep 1, 2013

• #1

On 18 August 2013 I photographed this bird in the Zapata Swamp area in Cuba. Although I have plenty of pictures it does not seem to fit exactly. According to me it is an aberrant Tennessee warbler with no white supercilium and only a very faint eye-stripe. I would appreciate some help with either corrections or suggestions as I have no experience with this species.

Douwe

 

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Douwe

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• Sep 1, 2013

• #2

One more from behind might help.

Douwe

 

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DarkFireFalcon

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• Sep 2, 2013

• #3

It looks more like a young Yellow Warbler.

 

Motmot

Eduardo Amengual

• Sep 2, 2013

• #4

Looks a juv Mangrove (Yellow) Warbler

 

njlarsen

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• Sep 2, 2013

• #5

Funny: the Yellow Warblers in Cuba I thought belonged to the "Golden" variety. This bird is very different from the juveniles I am used to from more easterly in the Caribbean. But I see that some of the drawings in Sibley depicts some juvenile golden as being this greyish, presumably using Florida birds as types.

Niels

 

Motmot

Eduardo Amengual

• Sep 2, 2013

• #6

Found this similar HY Mangrove browsing a bit:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/birdfellow-...tification/MangroveW-LaPaz2X-1.jpg?1270949354

 

Douwe

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• Sep 2, 2013

• #7

Thanks for the advice. Although I initially filed this bird as juvenile Yellow Warbler, I felt it did not properly match the juvenile birds depicted in the bird books I used (A guide to the birds of the West Indies and Birds of Cuba), but as brought forward, Sibley indeed has a more convincing drawing of a juvenile and the link found by Motmot is an almost exact copy. Without aiming to identify the (Northern or Golden) group, I saw plenty of Yellow Warblers and no Mangrove Warblers. Therefore Yellow Warbler is probably more likely.

Douwe