Can someone please identify this bird? Taken near Hotel Villa Florencia in Costa Rica in January. I'm thinking MacGillivray's Warbler, but definitely not sure.
Thanks
Chris
Thanks
Chris
A young mourning can have a broken eye-ring : https://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33390
On the other hand, this young MacGillivray fits rather well https://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61811
Niels
Thanks Nige and Andy. My book has female Mourning Warbler with a narrow, broken eye ring (which fits). MacGillivray's Warbler is definitely rarer.
Thanks Nige and Andy. My book has female Mourning Warbler with a narrow, broken eye ring (which fits). MacGillivray's Warbler is definitely rarer.
MacG is rare in Panama but not quite so rare in CR: https://ebird.org/map/macwar?neg=tr...e&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=last10
(notice only last 10 years shown)
Mourning is more widespread and with more recent sightings: https://ebird.org/map/mouwar?neg=tr...1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=last10&byr=2009&eyr=2019
Niels
I am not sure MacG is rare enough to be excluded, there is three observations that are labeled in red indicating something like "within last month"
Niels
That would clearly seem to favout MacG then only, in the last pic here, the bird has a black, blob on the breast and, I just Googled, a very good number of birde 'labelled' as MacG, do not have a white throat or any hint of a supra loral?One other point to add here is Sibley's (2014) mention of white throat and supraloral in MacG's, whereas Mourning's throat (and supraloral) is "usually yellow".
I think the white on the throat is in relation to young MacG, not adults
Niels