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Please help with I’d from Tenerife (1 Viewer)
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Jean FRANCOIS
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Canary Islands Chiffchaff.
Jean
Jean
rollingthunder
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Interesting...
I have not visited the Canaries but do have a trip planned for one of the main islands with the remaining 5 days on La Gomera at some stage. According to what i have read not only has the former sub-species been upgraded but classed as having 2 subspecies with a sub-specific one on Lanzarote. Is the common Chiffchaff a passage migrant and if so are they present in the Autumn with the attendant issues that non-singing birds generate?
Laurie:t:
I have not visited the Canaries but do have a trip planned for one of the main islands with the remaining 5 days on La Gomera at some stage. According to what i have read not only has the former sub-species been upgraded but classed as having 2 subspecies with a sub-specific one on Lanzarote. Is the common Chiffchaff a passage migrant and if so are they present in the Autumn with the attendant issues that non-singing birds generate?
Laurie:t:
Jean FRANCOIS
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There is no doubt from the plumage that this bird is a C. I. Chiffchaff.
Common Chiffchaff P. c. collybita is a regular migrant at both crossings.
P. canariensis exul from Lanzarote is probably extinct.
Jean
