Birdwatch UK October 2017

IDENTIFICATION

42 Birdwatch•October 2017 http://www.birdguides.com/birdwatch

PAUL KELLY (WWW.IRISHBIRDIMAGES.COM)

12 Yellow-browed Warbler (Cape Clear Island, Co Cork, 6 October

2005). With its prominent white tertial fringes, this can only be one

of the small leaf warblers. The combination of bright green

upperparts, plain crown, strong creamy supercilium, extensive orange

in the bill and striking double wing-bars enables a straightforward

identification as Yellow-browed Warbler. This individual is

exceptionally fresh, still having neat white tips to the secondaries and

inner primaries as well.

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PAUL WILSON

MARKUS VARESVUO (WWW.BIRDPHOTO.FI)

13 Hume’s Leaf Warbler (Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, 13 May 2009). By

contrast, this spring Hume’s Leaf Warbler appears much drabber and

less bright green, with a more subdued face pattern. Note that it is

more worn, with narrower wing-bars and tertial fringes, and the pale

tips to the flight feathers have worn off. Also visible here is the

largely dark bill.

14 Pallas’s Warbler (Utã,

Finland, 13 October 2010). This

Pallas’s Warbler is doing its best

to show its full suite of features

in one photograph. Note the

contrastingly dark olive crown

with a prominent central stripe,

strong face pattern, ‘wrap-

around’ pale yellow rump patch,

bold double wing-bars and

whitish tertial edges.

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