warbler @ Yerocham, Israel on 6.5.21 got an opinion of "Garden Warbler with odd color" what do you think? (1 Viewer)

[samsam]

 

[Waxwings]

Perhaps Spectacled Warbler?

 

[kuzeycem]

Garden Warbler

 

[Andy Adcock]

Has it lost the tip of it's lower mandible?

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

Rather interestingly, this individual shows a clear moult limit in the tail, r6 (at least) paler i.e worn, contrasting with the darker replaced inner feathers. Normally, this would be considered evidence of 2cy though not a reliable ageing character in Garden Warbler.

I don't know how reliable the colours are but odd plumaged Sylvias are not that unusual in my experience which includes several examples of Common Whitethroat, Blackcap and Garden Warbler.

Grahame

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Not a definite answer, but I struggle to see a Garden Warbler here:

• with a little bit of wishful thinking and taking picture quality into account, I see:
• peachy breast and throat and contrasting white moustache
• greyish uppparts with much worn wings, therefore any markings/pattern including slight brown/orange fringes can easily be worn off/bleached
• a deformed bill, masking its true shape, but a small bill for a Garden Warbler

Yes, grey legs are unusual for Subalpine Warbler, but I have only seen western and birds within moltoni range before, but why not an Eastern Subalpine Warbler?

 

[Andy Adcock]

Not a definite answer, but I struggle to see a Garden Warbler here:

• with a little bit of wishful thinking and taking picture quality into account, I see:
• peachy breast and throat and contrasting white moustache
• greyish uppparts with much worn wings, therefore any markings/pattern including slight brown/orange fringes can easily be worn off/bleached
• a deformed bill, masking its true shape, but a small bill for a Garden Warbler

Yes, grey legs are unusual for Subalpine Warbler, but I have only seen western and birds within moltoni range before, but why not an Eastern Subalpine Warbler?

My thoughts too, the upper mandible looks to be slightly hooked though possibly exagerrated by damage / deformity of the lower but it doesn't give the impression of a Garden Warbler type bill to me?

 

[CARERY]

To me as well this is a Garden Warbler. Yes, the colours on this image are a bit off but nonetheless the legs are rather thick and grey and also face pattern fits

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Thank you to all, especially to Grahame and Roland for mentioning features that iD this bird as a Garden Warbler . I must admit, that I have never seen a Garden Warbler with contrasting, different colours before.
My experience is: while overall colouration of Garden Warblers is slightly variable, but they still appear quite uniform coloured.
So its time for me to learn, one reason, why I am here!

 

[Andy Adcock]

How often does GW have a solidly black, bill?

 

[THE_FERN]

How often does GW have a solidly black, bill?

I don't think we can say with confidence that the OP has a solidly black bill... This pic is such that it makes anything colour-related very uncertain.