Yellow Warbler? (1 Viewer)

[Oscar0906]

Hi,

I recently saw these in in Aruba.
I suspect yellow warblers but the green/grey colouring makes me doubt.

Oscar

 

[AveryBartels]

Yes, both Yellow Warblers. The second image is of a second-year bird mid-moult with the grey plumage being retained feathers from last fall.

 

[Butty]

second-year bird

1st-year ( = 2nd calendar year)?

 

[AveryBartels]

1st-year ( = 2nd calendar year)?

To my understanding/experience when using "year" in aging a bird it is always with regards to the calendar year. But I could certainly be mistaken. In this case, yes, it means second calendar year ie. hatched in 2021.

 

[THE_FERN]

To my understanding/experience when using "year" in aging a bird it is always with regards to the calendar year. But I could certainly be mistaken. In this case, yes, it means second calendar year ie. hatched in 2021.

I agree with Butty on this one. Alas, as with feather numbering there's considerable confusion, perhaps mostly with gulls [hint: all the big whitish ones are one species...]

 

[Butty]

To my understanding/experience when using "year" in aging a bird it is always with regards to the calendar year.

Depends what world you live in. For ringers, I'd agree with you - but this is a birder's forum rather than a ringer's or gull-nut's, and year-of-life terminology has repeatedly been considered to hold sway as the default here - as it does in major field guides and with field birders generally - and (the major winner) it's just plain more intuitive.

 

[AveryBartels]

Fair enough, I guess it is the ringer/bander in me that is simply accustomed to using calendar years

 

[iluvbirdz]

yes.

 

[KC Foggin]

Yellow Warblers for me.