Unidentified Warblers - Tarifa, Spain, September 2021 (1 Viewer)

[Mike Ball]

Hello. I only just discovered that you can post videos here.

I posted some photo's a while back of an unidentified warbler. There was a consensus that it couldn't be IDed from the photos. The bird was seen in Tarifa, Cadiz (Southern Spain) on 11/09/2021.

Perhaps the following videos might help with identification:

 

[Butty]

Is this a Melodious Warbler? Cadiz, Spain Sept 2021

I think this is a Melodious Warbler. Am I right?

www.birdforum.net

. . . I assume.

 

[Mike Ball]

Yeah that's the thread from a while back. The videos aren't great, and frustratingly no calling.

 

[Butty]

All are phylloscs, all look like the same species, and in vids 2-3 you can see they're some sort of chiffchaff-type (short primaries). Which is about where you were before.

 

[Mike Ball]

Yes indeed. I was hoping the video might help with Jizz determination which might offer more clues. Worth a try ...

 

[Butty]

I don't find phylloscs have much of that - not in a way that tells them apart anyway. But I'm a bit of a Philistine . . .

 

[Richard Prior]

I don't find phylloscs have much of that - not in a way that tells them apart anyway. But I'm a bit of a Philistine . . .

As the saying goes - Don’t be so hard on yourself - that’s our job