Warbler ID? (Connecticut) (1 Viewer)

[Barbie Heid]

Hello all! We spotted this guy in Chatfield Hollow State Park (Connecticut) today, 5/24. I'm pretty sure it's a warbler but the black streak is throwing me off. If it means anything, he was calling but no similar calls were returned. It was in the middle of a bog/swamp and was in the company of goldfinches, swallows and cedar waxwings. Thanks!

 

[Harrybongo]

Hello all! We spotted this guy in Chatfield Hollow State Park (Connecticut) today, 5/24. I'm pretty sure it's a warbler but the black streak is throwing me off. If it means anything, he was calling but no similar calls were returned. It was in the middle of a bog/swamp and was in the company of goldfinches, swallows and cedar waxwings. Thanks!


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Hi. I'm no expert, but it could be a Blue-winged warbler?

 

[rkj]

Blue-winged Warbler commonly hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler. This bird is not a first generation hybrid, but the amount of yellow in the wingbars makes me wonder if it might have some Golden-winged in its ancestry. Blue-winged can have a bit of yellow on the wingbars, and I am not sure if this is outside the range of pure Blue-winged or not.

 

[Harrybongo]

Blue-winged Warbler commonly hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler. This bird is not a first generation hybrid, but the amount of yellow in the wingbars makes me wonder if it might have some Golden-winged in its ancestry. Blue-winged can have a bit of yellow on the wingbars, and I am not sure if this is outside the range of pure Blue-winged or not.

Hi. If you notice, the image has a very yellow tinge to it, the twigs, light etc, so the wing bars, might look more yellow than they should....... Maybe?

 

[THE_FERN]

Hi. If you notice, the image has a very yellow tinge to it, the twigs, light etc, so the wing bars, might look more yellow than they should....... Maybe?

Probably. But note at least some of the lichen is yellow. And I think there are apparent contrast effects with the blue sky (i.e. makes things appear more yellow than if the sky were some other colour)

 

[Barbie Heid]

Thank you all! So, it may be a hybrid? I agree that being taken at dusk may make the colors a little skewed.

 

[Barbie Heid]

Blue-winged Warbler commonly hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler. This bird is not a first generation hybrid, but the amount of yellow in the wingbars makes me wonder if it might have some Golden-winged in its ancestry. Blue-winged can have a bit of yellow on the wingbars, and I am not sure if this is outside the range of pure Blue-winged or not.

I guess that's possible: Connecticut is within the range of the blue-winged (according to Peterson's).

 

[Harrybongo]

Thank you all! So, it may be a hybrid? I agree that being taken at dusk may make the colors a little skewed.

👍 😁

 

[Brad Hacker]

Blue-winged x Golden-winged.

Warbler Guide book
Warbler Guide app
Peterson Field Guides: Warblers pp. 140-143

 

[Barbie Heid]

Blue-winged x Golden-winged.

Warbler Guide book
Warbler Guide app
Peterson Field Guides: Warblers pp. 140-143

Thank you!