Hi Tweeters,

I would add to Steve's comments, from my limited experience from banding
Yellow-throated Warblers, that they are not reliably aged and sexed this
time of year even in the hand.

Happy Holidays!

Russell


SGMlod at aol.com wrote:

> Greetings All
>
> I finally got around to scrutinizing my video of the YT Warbler. I
> wholly agree with Patrick that the bird is of the race albilora. Beyond
> the points that Patrick made, I could see a bit of white on the chin,
> which fits albilora better than dominica.
>
> As to age/gender. From what I can extract from the literature, the black
> on this bird's cap is too restricted to be an adult male. The back is
> too gray and the flanks too white to be an imm female, thus leaving us
> with imm male or adult female. Unfortunately, these are apparently not
> separable in the field. Given that imms are more likely to wander, I'd
> bet on an imm male, but there is no way to know.

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