[texbirds] Re: Black-throated Green Warbler at Big Bend, 6/24/13
- From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tex Birds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:36:34 -0500
i'm wondering why this isn't a Townsend's or even a Townsend's X Black-throated
Green?
tony gallucci
ingram/kerrville/hunt, texas
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> From: gcwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: Black-throated Green Warbler at Big Bend, 6/24/13
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:07:34 -0500
>
> I agree with Mitch that the warbler is a little odd, but I can't
> recall ever seeing juvenile Golden-cheeks with the dusky face pattern
> shown in Dan's first picture of the warbler. That duskiness in the
> face is less evident in the 2nd and 3rd images which gives me pause.
> I cannot tell much about feather molt/wear from the photos which
> might help with aging. Any adult Golden-cheek *should* have a clean
> yellow face with a striking dark/blackish eyeline.
>
> The amount of black along the sides of the neck/breast on Dan's bird
> suggests this is female bird; even juvenile male Golden-cheeks show
> at least some blackish mottling across the throat at this time of
> year. Yet the amount of black is far more than in immature female
> Golden-cheek would have. Thus it would appear to be down to an adult
> female of one or the other species.
>
> Are there a couple of dusky spots on the rear-most undertail coverts?
>
> I recall finding (and being disppointed at finding) a Black-throated
> Green near the Pinnacles in late July or early August many years ago,
> so at least a few of them do migrate very early to that region. But
> it is also the season that would attrack a post-breeding dispersal of
> Golden-cheek as well. Very intriguing.
>
> Chuck Sexton
> Austin
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