Olive-tree Warbler Lesvos Confirmation please (1 Viewer)

[jtwood]

This photo was taken in Lesvos on the 4th May 2009 can anyone help with ID confirmation

 

[Tib78]

It does look like an Olive-tree Warbler to me, at least from this view. No other pic?

 

[CAU]

The photographic angle makes the identification a bit difficult. Do you have a picture showing the wings? Based on just this photo it looks a bit more like an Eastern Olivaceous Warbler to me, mostly due to the rather broad supercilium, the thin looking bill and the brown tinge on the crown, but I could be wrong.

 

[jtwood]

Sorry no other pics

 

[Howard King]

Don't think you can tell from this angle

 

[jtwood]

My oberservations of the bird put its size as bigger than a Olivaceous Warbler I have seen and photographed Olivaceous warblers many times on Lesvos and I feel this bird just did not match a Olivaceous

 

[SJC]

Olivaceous for me too (for the reasons already mentioned by CAU). I can't see how that bill can be an Olive-tree's! Also Olive-tree is greyish, the colour of this bird looks spot on for Olivaceous. Here's two photos from a similar angle that show bill size and upperpart colouration.

 

[jtwood]

Looking at SJC's photo's Olivaceous Warbler now looks the most likely. thanks for the input. Must return next year and get the Olive-tree Warbler