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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasmus Boegh" data-source="post: 1009273" data-attributes="member: 1146">And I just checked the link. That's a Common, not a Yellow-lored. Some Common show yellow lores, but never as extensive as in the Yellow-lored. That's what you've got there, a Common with yellow lores. Two things separates it from the true Yellow-lored:1) The Yellow-lored has, as just mentioned, more extensive yellow to the lores.2) As noted in my earlier post, the undertail also is quite a useful feature. The Common has white tipping (typically quite distinct from below, but often not visible from above), which the Yellow-lored lacks.Unfortunately, field guides only ever seem to mention the lores, and as they typically also fail to mention that a few Common show some yellow to the lores, one can only wonder how commonly these birds are mis-identified.Here are two photos from the gallery showing a real Yellow-lored:* <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=125383" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=125383</a>* <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41231" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41231</a>Try comparing the size of yellow lores and the undertail pattern with the bird on the photo you linked to. I've edited the title of your photo in the gallery, and added a link to this thread. Yours wasn't the only one, as a fast search in the BF gallery actually revealed another Common with yellow lores that was mis-ID'ed as a Yellow-lored...</blockquote>

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