I have to admit I blew this off as a Mac when I looked at
it on my way too dark screen....

I've downloaded it and fussed with it in photoshop and, yeah,
it's an Orange-crowned. Given the number of eastern vagrants
this fall, I think it might be worth considering _celata_
along with _orestera_. They can be tough to sort out in the
fall. _Orestera_ is the heaviest billed of the three subspecies
and the bill on this bird seems fairly thin. I would also expect
duskier flanks and a smudgier looking breast.

It's probably not possible to claim _orestera_ or _celata_ based
on any single picture, but as I said, given the deluge of
eastern vagrants this fall....

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Subject: Unid Help: Warbler
From: SGMlod AT aol.com
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:13:48 EST

Greetings All

The warbler in question is an Orange-crowned of the race orestera, which
breeds in e. BC and easternmost WA and is not a rare migrant through
here. This

race is often ID'd as a MacG because of the gray cheek/crown and partial
white
eyering. Note, however, that a MacG would have gray on chest and white
or gray
on throat, not yellow. Also, the broken white eye-ring is narrow, not
fat arcs
like MacG. A Nashville would have a brighter complete white eyering;
also
note the dull streaks on this birds chest, a feature of Orange-crowned
Warbler
but not the other species considered.

Our breeding OCWAs (race lutescens, which means yellow or yellowish)
lacks
the extensive gray on the head and cheek (which orestera has in fall
only, if I

remember correctly) and tends towards a brighter green-yellow. I like
the old
name: Lutescent Warbler.

Cheers
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