RE: [SBB] possible Philadelphia Vireo

["Alvaro Jaramillo" <[[email protected]]>]

Tom

  That bird looks like a classic Philly to me. The points to look for
compared to Warbling are the following:
- dark lores
- yellow throat, and in this case extensive yellow on underparts. 
- cap and nape contrastingly grayer than olive back. 
- Cap dark, and contrasting with paler supercilium. 
- small size. 
- Short, but thick-based bill; perhaps more often contrastingly orange-pink
at base than Warbling. This may be due to the fact that Warblings have
rather pale bills, but Phillys have darker bills in general. 

The bird in your photos shows all of these marks, size can't be assessed of
course. If this is not a Philadelphia Vireo, I don't know what is. Great
find! 

Al

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> Subject: [SBB] possible Philadelphia Vireo
> 
> Mike Rogers just got in touch and confirmed my suspicion that the pictures
> I just posted may show a Philadelphia Vireo. I photographed the bird from
> the east side of Stevens Creek, north of L'Avenida, and I believe before
> the power lines. I didn't pay much attention to the bird when I saw it --
> couldn't see any of its features in any detail until I post-processed my
> digital images back at home. Mike R and Mike Mammoser are heading out now
> to look for the bird.
> http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/vireo_query
> 
> Tom Grey
> 
> 
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