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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:38:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [FLORIDABIRDS-L] Mystery Warbler
Comments: To: Giff Beaton <[log in to unmask]>
At 04:35 PM 7/21/00 -0400, Giff Beaton wrote:
 > Andy's other thread was the one excerpted below
 >about a warbler photo:
 >
 >"On a different note, a few days ago Barbara Passmore kindly passed along
 >the website with some fine parulid pictures from Canada
 >(http://www3.sympatico.ca/regisf/diaporama/paruline.html). I ran through
 >these and got kind of stuck on the fourth photo, the Paruline a joues
 >grises (or Nashville Warbler as the AOU-CLC French name index shows) .
 >When I first saw this I thought it was an immature Canada Warbler. A few
 >others around here at the museum thought similarly, although none of us can
 >definitely put our finger on why it may be a Canada and not a Nashville.
 >But Bill shape (rather straight), toe and leg color (pinkish?) suggest
 >Canada. Take a look. Any other comments?"
 >
 >I would have to disagree on the id of this warbler. While it is not a great
 >shot, and colors can show up differently on different people's computer
 >screens, I do not think this is a Canada. It's true you can't really see
 >the bill very well (in any case "rather straight" would not be wrong for
 >Nashville), but the head is clearly gray, which eliminates all ages and
 >sexes of Canada. The eye ring looks pretty much white also, another vote
 >against Canada. I can't get enough on the length or shape of the bill to be
 >certain either way, but perhaps a better candidate if this isn't a
 >Nashville would be fall Magnolia Warbler, based on the head pattern. The
 >lighting of this shot is also not that great, but I don't think it actually
 >is a Magnolia either. For a Mag to have flank streaks this faint, almost
 >non-existent (like a first-fall female), you would expect a band of gray
 >across the upper breast. I see neither streaks nor the gray band. If you
 >could tell whether there were any wingbars this would be an easier call,
 >but I can't tell for sure. Finally, even though you can only see the tip of
 >the tail, the distal tip of the underside should be black, and it isn't in
 >this shot. Leg color is still a problem, because both Nashville and
 >Magnolia would have dark if not black legs, but I wonder if it's not a
 >trick of the poor lighting. I think it probably is a Nashville, all of the
 >above considered.
 >Giff Beaton
 >Marietta GA
I think this bird is a Nashville Warbler. I assume the foot/leg color to
be an artifact of the photo. It is not a Magnolia, IMHO, or a Canada. The
jizz, shape of the body is not right. JD

Jack Dozier
Alligator Pt., FL
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