Hi there Guatemala ID please (1 Viewer)

[Brewsky]

Hi all! Nice to be part of a birding society I'm just getting started with birding and becoming more interested since I'm travelling Central America. From most birds that I photographed over the last months I could figure out the name. However, this one remains a mystery to me. It does not help that the picture is not great. The picture was taken in Biotopo del Quetzal in Guatemala. Cheers, Rik

 

[Kits]

Welcome to Birdforum. hope you enjoy your visits.

 

[KC Foggin]

Hi there and a warm welcome to you from those of us on staff here at BirdForum
We're glad you found us and please join in wherever you like.

 

[delia todd]

Hi Rik and a warm welcome from me too. I've moved your post to the ID forum, as you've a better chance of getting him named there. I'm guessing it's a crested something LOL.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I hope to hear about all the birds you see when out and about.

 

[Lisa W]

Hi, welcome to the forum. I think you will find us a friendly and helpful group. Sorry, can’t help with an ID.

 

[nartreb]

An interesting photo. My thought process went something like this :
- might be one of those annoyingly similar-to-each-other small flycatchers
- but that uneven eye ring looks more like a ruby-crowned kinglet - and it's got a dark wing bar and a crest too!
- but the crest isn't red, and the crest is too big and ragged for a kinglet
- isn't there a vireo with an asymmetric eye ring like that?

Searching on Wikipedia's list of Guatemalan birds, Hutton's vireo looks like a good match.

 

[Brewsky]

Thanks for the warm welcome!! My initial thought was also a flycatcher. I found one with crest and eye ring that comes close: the Cordilleran Flycatcher. But I'm not sure..

 

[Brewsky]

I have one other bird that I can't find the name of. It was quite common and I've spotted it mainly in the region of Flores in Guatemala. Does anyone know this bird?

 

[njlarsen]

Your second bird is a sulphur-bellied Flycatcher.
Niels

 

[THE_FERN]

An interesting photo. My thought process went something like this :
- might be one of those annoyingly similar-to-each-other small flycatchers
- but that uneven eye ring looks more like a ruby-crowned kinglet - and it's got a dark wing bar and a crest too!
- but the crest isn't red, and the crest is too big and ragged for a kinglet
- isn't there a vireo with an asymmetric eye ring like that?

Searching on Wikipedia's list of Guatemalan birds, Hutton's vireo looks like a good match.

No it's not a vireo: it's a tyrant flycatcher. It's almost certainly yellowish flycatcher, although the apparently rufous tail is not correct. (But it's even more wrong for the other common ones that look similar—tufted and yellow-bellied.)

 

[stuartelsom]

Belted Flycatcher might fit as the crest, eye-crescent, double wing bars and longish tail are all pro features. I've tried playing around with the levels in photoshop but its an awkward one to put it mildly.

Stu

 

[THE_FERN]

Belted Flycatcher might fit as the crest, eye-crescent, double wing bars and longish tail are all pro features. I've tried playing around with the levels in photoshop but its an awkward one to put it mildly.

Stu

Perhaps, although it's not on the ebird list. I don't know that species but wouldn't we expect a longer crest?

 

[pbjosh]

Despite the photo quality (and I'm guessing the apparent tail coloration is a photo artifact), the location + what we can see is enough to quite confidently call this Yellowish Flycatcher, at least that's my take