Confirm ID near Drakes Bay, Costa Rica (1 Viewer)

[Mike Beer]

Hello can I have a ID on this bird please, I only have the one picture I think it is a Prairie Warbler

Mike

 

[KenM]

It’s not a Prairie Mike, am head scratching on this, the nearest I can get is a Townsend’s Warbler but!…it’s not quite right, in as much as it’s super doesn’t join up with it’s neckband…at a loss at the moment.

Cheers

 

[Mike Beer]

It’s not a Prairie Mike, am head scratching on this, the nearest I can get is a Townsend’s Warbler but!…it’s not quite right, in as much as it’s super doesn’t join up with it’s neckband…at a loss at the moment.

Cheers

Thank you for replying
Mike

 

[KenM]

Of course you’re in Costa Rica!…might be an endemic bird?
You’ll need more “hands”.😮

Cheers

 

[Bewick]

Possibly an immature blackburnian warbler.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Black-throated Green is very common there?

 

[njlarsen]

I am not sure why Prairie would be excluded, it is the one fitting the pattern in the head the best, and most other things I can see are in agreement with this?
Niels

 

[Andy Adcock]

Aren't the wing bars too bold and too white?

Edit: I'm coming around to it being Prairie.

 

[KenM]

Aren't the wing bars too bold and too white?

That’s what I thought, however!…If you look through images of PW you’ll find that the species is somewhat variable and indeed, I found one looking like the subject bird!
Lesson learnt, never rely totally on field guides!

Prairie it is Mike.😩👍

 

[Mike Beer]

Thanks everyone for replying.

Mike

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Of course you’re in Costa Rica!…might be an endemic bird?
You’ll need more “hands”.😮

Cheers

there's no endemic warbler in Costa Rica. Away from Cocos Island, there are 3 endemic hummingbirds and the Black-cheeked Ant-tanager.

 

[njlarsen]

there's no endemic warbler in Costa Rica. Away from Cocos Island, there are 3 endemic hummingbirds and the Black-cheeked Ant-tanager.

I guess the closest thing to an endemic warbler would be this one:

https://ebird.org/species/thswar5

(Costa Rican Warbler)
Niels

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

I guess the closest thing to an endemic warbler would be this one:

https://ebird.org/species/thswar5

(Costa Rican Warbler)
Niels

Yeah, a newly split from Three-striped Warbler (Basileuterus tristriatus) ; there are many species endemic to Costa Rica / Panama highlands like this one. Drake is lowland though. For fun, THIS BIRD is indeed a Costa Rica / Panama endemic I recently took in Drake bay... but this is very far from a warbler