Collin, Tweeters,

An odd looking warbler, for sure. It suggests a lot of features in common with an immature male American Redstart: the grayish head with moderate pale eyering, the orange-yellow edges of the breast, but the yellow is more extensive than it should be and the irregular black bib is aberrant. Dunn and Garrett's Warblers mentions American Redstart X Nashville Warbler as a probable occurrence. American Redstart could help account for the extent of black on the breast in a way few other species might. It's not anywhere close to the range of typical Hermit X Townsend's hybrids. At first glance, it's even reminiscent of the extinct Bachman's Warbler. Too bad that's not possible.

A starting point might be American Redstart hybridized with a warbler that shows a yellow undertail and perhaps considerable yellow below, and that also occurs in the west: Nashville, Wilson's, Yellow. I don't know if a definitive answer is possible, but this should certainly arouse some careful speculation.

Bob


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From: Collin Vassallo
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Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 2:52 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Queen Anne birding and a myster warbler!






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Subject: Queen Anne birding and a myster warbler!


Today my friend Sam Riley and I went birding around my house on Queen Anne. We spoted 2 WARBLING VIREOS, 10 EVENING GROSBEAKS, WILSON'S , YELLOW , TOWNSEND'S, and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Plus an extremely weird looking warbler, probably a hybrid of some sort. I don't even know where to begin describing it, so please check out my photos. We observed it for 20 minutes right by Parson's Garden.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9654794 at N06/

Collin Vassallo
Queen Anne
norrisbigelow at yahoo.com








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