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Vermivora celata
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Description

4.25 inches in length. Small, active, insect-eating bird with thin, very pointed bill. Indistinct yellow supercilium. Indistinct broken eye ring. Grayish to olive head, bac, and wings. No wing bars. Yellow to dull yellow/olive underparts with blurry, indistinct streaks on breast. Yellow undertail coverts. Orange crown patch rarely visible. Females and immatures are somewhat duller. Considerable variation in plumage with western birds being somewhat yellower and eastern birds grayer.

Identification

Location: Edmonds, Washington, USA

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