Any idea what this little yellow Bird is? -USA (1 Viewer)

[Sage-grouse girl]

Hi I found this little yellow bird and I'm thinking warbler or goldfinch but I dont know which one! can you help? It was found in wyoming. (sorry, I tried to crop it but it wasn't) working

 

[nartreb]

Where in Wyoming? The yellowish warblers can be tricky, so exact location is a useful clue. I'll start the guessing with female American Redstart (common in most of Wyoming, but not near the southern border of the state). Did you get a look at the tail?

 

[KC Foggin]

I hope you don't mind but I've cropped it and lightened it up,

 

[Butty]

Hello. Location and date are both required for ID. Thanks.

I'll start the guessing with female American Redstart

I'm afraid I can't see that at all in this bird - face-pattern, wing-bars, underpart colour.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

My instinct is Nashville.

 

[Microtus]

My instinct is Nashville.

Where and when in Wyoming?

 

[Barbets48]

I would suggest a female/young male Magnolia Warbler. The wing bars are a bit too prominent for Nashville and the overall feel to me suggests Magnolia.

 

[connorco]

This looks like a pretty obvious Yellow Warbler to me. Small but visible eye-ring, dull yellowish throughout, with yellow wing bars.

 

[THE_FERN]

This looks like a pretty obvious Yellow Warbler to me. Small but visible eye-ring, dull yellowish throughout, with yellow wing bars.

Sorry I don't see yellow warbler here. For me jizz and colours wrong.

 

[Kratter]

I agree with Yellow Warbler. Plain face with eyering, bill shape, yellow edge wing coverts all fine for that species.
Andy

 

[bhutjoe]

I am hesitant to wade in here but I think for a northern yellow warbler to have a white eye ring is unusual. And it does seem to have all the features of a female magnolia, though a bit of streaking on the throat, upper belly would have been nice. The two do look very similar though. But on location I would think put it as a magnolia. But I am hoping to learn here.

 

[connorco]

I've linked some photos of some similar looking Yellow Warblers

Photo 1
Photo 2

@Sage-grouse girl, do you have any photos showing the tail of this bird? That should solve the mystery

 

[Butty]

suggest a female/young male Magnolia Warbler

does seem to have all the features of a female magnolia

Undertail-coverts here are yellow; white in magnolia warbler. So... apparently not magnolia warbler.

 

[Butty]

some photos of some similar looking Yellow Warblers
Photo 1
Photo 2

These have very weak greater-covert wing-bar, unilke the OP's bird.

 

[bhutjoe]

I take Butty's point and stand corrected about the eye ring. I found a photo in ebird of an immature yellow warbler taken in Alaska that looked alot like the OPs. Thanks and happy to be corrected

 

[Barbets48]

Undertail-coverts here are yellow; white in magnolia warbler. So... apparently not magnolia warbler.

Despite my previous first thought, I agree with Butty that Yellow Warbler is right. The difference in the undertail coverts is a helpful point which seems to hold true in nearly all ages and plumages of the two species.

 

[Butty]

I agree with Butty that Yellow Warbler is right.

I (carefully and deliberately) did not say this!

 

[Butty]

The difference in the undertail coverts is a helpful point which seems to hold true in nearly all ages and plumages of the two species.

Actually all, as far as I'm aware.

 

[Sage-grouse girl]

I doubt that this is the same bird as the first but it may be the same kind, this is the only other picture I got, and I don't know what it is either.

 

[Sage-grouse girl]

Where and when in Wyoming?

Ayres Natural Bridge Park on July 20