dominican warbler I.D !!! (1 Viewer)

ESTEBANNIC

Well-known member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #1

Hello!

Took this photo of a warbler (?) in the Dominican Republic a few days ago.
As I'm from Spain I'm hopeless with American species. Can someone help out??

Thanks

Steve B

 

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Julian Sykes Wildlife

Jules Sykes

• Nov 24, 2004

• #2

Yellow throated Warbler, I think Steve

 

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Bluetail

Senior Moment

• Nov 24, 2004

• #3

Hi Steve. That's a Yellow-throated Warbler.

 

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streatham

Well-known member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #4

Yellow-Throated. You can rule out Grace's on location as much as plummage details

 

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Grousemore

Senior Member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #5

3-way dead-heat!

 

ESTEBANNIC

Well-known member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #6

wow!! instant replies!

Thanks guys

 

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mattpau

Well-known member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #7

My West Indies field guide says that Yellow-throated Warbler is uncommon on Hispaniola, so not a bad sighting!

 

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streatham

Well-known member

• Nov 24, 2004

• #8

Hi Paul,

I see it is uncommon but not rare interested how uncommon it is - any DR birders here? It seems that it's another one of those badly named place name warblers (I assume the dominica part of it's latin name pertains to the DR).

Luke

 

TexasFlyway

Hook 'em Horns

• Nov 24, 2004

• #9

Definetly a Yellow Throated Warbler. Hope to see him on the way back in the spring.

 

njlarsen

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Opus Editor

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• Nov 25, 2004

• #10

Raffaele et al. lists the species as uncommon in DR, and their definition is "not seen on every trip, but seen at least twice per year". Re dominica in the scientific name, there could be some confusion with the place I live: an island in the Lesser Antilles also named for sunday However, yellow-throated warbler is not supposed to have been seen here so in this case DR probably is the reason.

HTH
Niels

 

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streatham

Well-known member

• Nov 25, 2004

• #11

Hi Niels,

Thanks for that info - well I guess it's about as regular as the Connecticut Warbler - I only recall one being reported this year in CT!

Luke

 

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mattpau

Well-known member

• Nov 25, 2004

• #12

According to the book Wood Warblers' World by Hal H. Harrison, the specific name "dominica" does indeed come from Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic. The author states that Hispaniola used to be known as Santo Domingo and that's where the first specimen of this species was collected.

 

ESTEBANNIC

Well-known member

• Nov 25, 2004

• #13

tourist's luck then!!!! :bounce: