showing<\/em> the difference..<\/p>\nSince most of us learn best visually I’ll do that today.<\/p>\n
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This a different photo of the male Nashville Warbler I posted yesterday (initially I had mistakenly called him a female MacGillivray’s Warbler). Notice the bold white eye ring that completely encircles the eye. Males and females are similarly (though not exactly) colored and both sexes have the complete white eye ring.<\/p>\n
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This is a male MacGillivray’s Warbler. Males of this species have black lores (between the eye and the base of the bill) but the female lacks the black lores and both sexes can be confused with Nashville Warblers. Even Sibley says the two species are “often confused”.<\/p>\n
But notice that the eye ring of MacGillivray’s Warblers is ‘broken’ or incomplete, to the point that the whites surrounding the eyes are often called “eye crescents” instead of eye rings. There are other more subtle differences between the two species but the eye ring difference is the most distinctive and I think the best field mark.<\/p>\n
I should have noticed that difference in yesterday’s post but I… just… didn’t. Hopefully today’s post will help all of us to better distinguish the two species.<\/p>\n
We all make mistakes but if I make the same mistake again just shoot me.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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