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Piranga sp. ~ Piranga sp. | |||||||||||||
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2016-05-14 Piedras Bola (jal), Mexico
First impression was that the bird is a female Flame-colored Tanager. But I couldn't see the white tips to the tertials in the field, and can't either on these photos (though difficult to judge), and combined with the fact that the tail pattern on the outer rectrices is not good for a pure Flame-colored, lacking broad white tip that is limited by a straight line going up from centrally toward the body, I think this bird is a hybrid. Since size and shape otherwise fits well with a Flame-colored I imagine that the other half would have been a Western Tanager since the two are more or less equally sized and shaped. And since both pure females are yellow-greenish birds, it is also natural that the bird superficially looks like a Flame-colored. My opinion. |