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Birds - Week 10
Wrens, vireos, gnatcatcher
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
05/07/2009

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Blue-headed Vireo:


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  • Small songbird, medium-sized vireo.
  • Bluish gray head with white spectacles.
  • Two whitish wingbars.
  • Belly white.
  • Flanks yellowish.


♫: Song a broken series of slurred notes, with each phrase ending in either a downslur or an upswing, as if the bird asks a question, then answers it, over and over. Includes a few burry notes.

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Yellow-throated Vireo:


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  • Olive green upperparts.
  • Bright yellow throat, breast, and eye spectacles.
  • Belly and under tail white.
  • Two white wingbars.

♫: NA

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Warbling Vireo:


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  • Small drab songbird.
  • Back grayish green.
  • Underparts whitish, may have yellowish tinge to flanks.
  • Eyebrow dull white.
  • Grayish line through eye.
  • No wingbars, tail spots, or eyering.


♫: rapid jumble of rising and falling notes, usually ending in an accented, higher-pitched note.

"If I sees you, I will seize you, and I'll squeeze you till you squirt!"

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Philadelphia Vireo:


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  • Back grayish green.
  • Cap grayish.
  • Underparts pale yellow, palest on throat and deepest on breast.
  • Eyebrow white.
  • Blackish line through and in front of eye.
  • No wingbars, tail spots, or eyering.


♫: NA

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Red-eyed Vireo:


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  • Back olive-green, whiter underneath.
  • Crown gray to blue-gray.
  • Eyebrow white with black stripe through the eye.
  • Eyes dark red.

♫: series of phrases interspaced with short pauses, like the song of an American Robin broken into pieces

"where are you? here I am" over and over

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Horned Lark:


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  • Pale brown back.
  • Black chest patch.
  • Black face patch.
  • Yellow or pale throat.
  • Small "horns" on top of head.

♫: high, musical tinkling. Sound of the wooden-twisty metal bird call

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Golden-crowned Kinglet:


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  • Tiny bird.
  • Dull, olive-green on back.
  • Whitish below.
  • Wingbars.
  • Black stripe through eyes, white eyebrow.
  • Crown yellow, orange centered in male (often hidden), bordered in black.
  • Short tail.
  • In constant motion, continually flicking its wings.


♫: rising, thin, high-pitched "tsee, tsee-tsee-tsee" followed by short warble

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet:


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  • Constant wing-flicking
  • Tiny bird.
  • Dull, olive-green.
  • Wingbars.
  • Eyering.
  • Short tail.
  • In constant motion.
  • Male with red crown (usually hidden)

♫: 2-3 high "tsees" then 5-6 lower "turs" followed by "little king, little king, little king"

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher:


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Known by soft "spee" calls and constant motion. Flicks its white-edged tail from side to side to scare insects.

  • Tiny bird.
  • Long tail.
  • Bluish gray back.
  • White underside.
  • White eyering.
  • White outer tail feathers.
  • Small, thin bill.
  • No wingbars.

♫: a thin, nasal "spee."

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American Pipit:


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  • Medium-sized songbird.
  • Brown and striped.
  • Thin bill.
  • White outer tail feathers.
  • Bobs tail up and down.

♫: NA

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Scarlet Tanager:


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Male: Bright red all over; variable in hue and can be somewhat orange. Black tail and wings. Whitish bill. Dark eye. Gray legs.

 

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Female: Olive green to yellow body, brightest on throat, rump and undertail. Brownish olive wings and tail edged green.


♫: blurry robin call. Like a robin with a sore/raspy throat.

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