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    Communities > Forums > Bird Identification
    Forum: Bird IdentificationReplies: 2, Views: 43
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    Grasmussen
    Anchorage, AK (Zone 4a)

    November 24, 2007 9:57 PM

    Post #4225848

    I am forwarding this request for an I. D. from the Sitka, Alaska Nature Center. He posted a number of good photos.

    Thanks Gary


    The last couple of days there has been a (very late) warbler around our

    neighborhood. I got some photos of it today and could not come up with
    an
    identification.

    Photos, and my thoughts on several warblers that I considered can be
    found
    at:

    http://www.sitkanature.org/wordpress/2007/11/24/mystery-warb...

    I would appreciate any help with identification of this bird.

    Thanks,

    Matt Goff
    Sitka

    Resin

    Resin
    Northumberland
    United Kingdom (Zone 9a)

    November 24, 2007 11:52 PM

    Post #4226113

    I'd agree with Orange-crowned Warbler, subspecies celata ('taiga' in Sibley; as opposed to the local west-coast breeding lutescens), though that yellowish rump is odd (the yellowish under-tail coverts do fit). Slightly reminiscent of Virginia's Warbler, but that doesn't fit on other characters (e.g. has complete eye ring).

    Otherwise, it looks very like a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) from my side of things (it breeds as far east as about 145°E in eastern Siberia). But again, the yellowish rump is the sticking point. Of others from Siberia, Dusky and Radde's Warblers can be counted out, they both have much more prominent supercilia.

    Resin

    Resin

    Resin
    Northumberland
    United Kingdom (Zone 9a)

    November 25, 2007 12:08 AM

    Post #4226139

    PS interesting website he has there - found one misident, though, http://www.nawwal.org/~mrgoff/photojournal/2004/winspr/02-13... labelled Picea sitchensis seed, is Tsuga heterophylla seed

    Resin

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