Thursday, March 24, 2011

Sweet Tweet By Me: Utilizing Warblers' Undertail Covert Patterns For ID



Here's my latest tweet via Twitter relating to the above title/subject:

Spring Fever Cure: Helpful, Sometimes Diagnostic Wood-Warbler Feature = Undertail Patterns/Undertail Coverts: see pgs. 104-106 in “Warblers” (Dunn & Garrett, 1997).

(CLICK ON THE nearby illustration of the bird to see a closer view of its "undertail covert region." More specific, undertail marks on the bottom (ventral) side of the tail feathers (rectrices) are a diagnostic field mark in some species of New World wood-warblers (e.g., Magnolia Warbler, shown here, with abrupt demarcation/border of white-black)

LASTLY:

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(but who has the time or the interest? I'd rather watch birds than tweets, correct!? So I'm off to bird and find the latest returning neotropical migrants to our Marin Co. area.)

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post....Vince V., S. Jose

Anonymous said...

Can't wait to see MAWA arrive!

Anonymous said...

Tweeting is sweet, but birding is better

Anonymous said...

I think it's hard to see the UT coverts! But it's good for ID, you're correct.

Anonymous said...

Never knew this info. Thanks.

Jay C., Biloxi, Miss.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, WWGuy....

Anonymous said...

Yes, use this ID mark for Magnolia here in Tx....Peggy

Anonymous said...

Never thought about it, but I think you're right, Warbler Guy.....I shall now look closer at Undertail Coverts.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tips!

Anonymous said...

Yo, warbler hombre. Thanks.

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