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flycatcher Tayrona NP end of august (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter njlarsen
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Looks like tk. Suggest lightening to check throat etc. However, not sure there are many confusion species there
Edit: it's not cattle tyrant
Good to be sure of the wing bar colours here (which you could check through manipulation): perhaps sepia-capped if in any way cinnamon
When shooting, I save both jpg and raw. The first upload was a crop of the jpg. Here I have developed the raw using default white-balance in ACDSee (which tend to ignore what the camera did), and I have enlarged the area about 4x linearly. I see these as mostly whitish, but not completely sure? What about the pale area below the wing bars?
thanks
Niels
I was looking on my phone earlier. And even then my initial thought was an elaenia. I dismissed this as a quick look at ebird suggested yellow-bellied elaenia's yellow doesn't stretch so far up the chest so evenly. But looking at these images on a large screen: a) not sepia-capped: gives the impression of a larger bird (and wing bars wrong colour), b) can't shake the elaenia vibe, and looking at ebird again suggests it's possible. So yellow-bellied elaenia is my best guess.
Pro lesser is tail length (approx same as body length). Pro yellow-bellied is wing bars: dull, yellowish rather than bright white. Lighting makes it difficult to evaluate colour of yellow on underparts (which in any case varies iirc).
I can't remember which (if either) I saw there: what does ebird say is more common?
As I noted I'd go with yellow-bellied. Lesser is more common in central America I suspect
