Kuwait Phylloscopus (1 Viewer)

[ggregory71]

I would be most grateful for any opinions about the identity of this Kuwait Phylloscopus with two wing bars. The photographs were taken recently by Rick Saval.

 

[wintibird]

I can't open your pictures and the thumbnail is very small. Yellow-browed springs to my mind, but I would like to see bigger pics.

André

 

[Stew]

Hi George,

Hope your keeping well!

The bird certainly looks like a yellow-browed type and appears to show obvious dark bases to the secondries and mottled ear coverts - pointing to yellow-browed rather than Hume's. It would be a lot easier if we could enlarge the pics though.

Cheers,

Stewart.

 

[ggregory71]

Dear all,
Nice to hear from you.
I hope these attached photos can be enlarged. Please excuse my attempts at the earlier attachments - I am struggling with the photo shop whatsits on my new laptop.
The bird looked like one of the Yellow-browed complex to me at first, and still does, but other opinions are always welcome.

 

[StuartReeves]

I can enlarge the second set of photos, and everything i can see looks consistent with Yellow-browed Warbler.

Stuart

 

[Bird Hard 2]

The photos are a bit frustrating - do you have any that show the bill and tertials? I don't see any white on the tertials at all and I can't really see why it's not a Two-barred Greenish Warbler.

 

[ggregory71]

I have tried to upload two of the original photos in suitable form.
There was some discussion whether the bird was a Two-barred Greenish, but I don't know. Any further opinions would be appreciated.

 

[CAU]

The bird has blackish bases to the secondaries, like Stewart wrote, which rules out Two-barred Greenish Warbler. The centres of the greater coverts are also blackish, and the supercilium is very long. IMO nothing points towards Hume's Warbler either.

Two-barred Greenish:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/searc...esult&Bird_ID=1829&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1

Yellow-browed:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/searc...esult&Bird_ID=1837&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1

 

[Lappkrabben]

Agree on yellow browed. Hume's does not have this yellow supercilium either.

 

[HH75]

Another vote for Yellow-browed. I would expect a Hume's to have a less distinct median covert wingbar, and a buffer-toned, duller supercilium. Two-barred Greenish can be ruled out for the reasons mentioned by CAU: the pics are a salutory reminder that the pale tertial fringes of a Yellow-browed can be hard to see even on images where one would expect to see a hint of them.