[Tweeters] Yellow-rumped Warbler Intergrades
Kenneth Trease
krtrease at gmail.com
Thu May 26 21:07:14 PDT 2022
Thanks Dan for the reply. I have looked at several different field guides
and many photos and I can see what you mean about the shape of the throat
patch. I generally never paid much attention to it except to note the
color. I guess if someday the species is split then we will have hybrids
rather than intergrades.
Ken Trease
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:11 PM Dan McDougall-Treacy <danmcdt at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ken, one way I distinguish the Audubon and Myrtle forms is by the shape of
> the throat patch, an approach that is helpful throughout the year. I think
> of the Myrtle showing the throat patch flaring out and upward toward the
> auricular area, and the Audubon throat patch more vertically aimed toward
> the breast or underwing coverts.
> Recently I observed a bird with a bright white throat patch (Myrtle-y),
> and in the shape of the Audubon throat patch.
>
> The National Geographic field guide also shows the Myrtle with a whitish
> supercilium,though that field mark might not always be visible.
> Your photos show yellow/white in the (Audubon-shaped) throat patch,
> suggesting an intergrade condition. And one of those birds has a distinct
> white supercillium
> Others may know of different distinguishing field marks. Birds of the
> World goes into a number of subtleties.
>
> Dan McDougall-Treacy
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:15 PM Kenneth Trease <krtrease at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently returned from a trip to south-central Oregon. I photographed
>> two different Yellow-rumped Warblers (YRWA) that I thought might be
>> intergrades as they seem to have some characteristics of both Audubon's and
>> Myrtle forms. I would be interested to hear other's opinions-intergrades
>> or just within the normal variation for this species? Here is a link to
>> the photos on Flickr:
>>
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/cavuken/albums/72177720299278430
>>
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