Bird ID?

[cb977]

Does anybody have any idea what kind of bird this is?

[stonedragonfarms]

Sue: It sort of looks like a pine warbler to me, or maybe a palm warbler...
Adam

[snow]

i,m guessing, a tanager?

[kavanaru]

Hi Sue,

that's a Great Crested Flycatcher (Myriarchus crinitus). A similar bird is the Brown-crested Flycatcher (Myriarchus tyrannulus), which is very difficult to separate based on your pictures. However, the Brown-crested is a casul visitor in Florida (I am assuming you took that picture at your home!)

you can discard the two warbler mentioned by Adam, as they have neither grey brast nor rufous undertail coverts. As per tanager, there are no grey breasted tanagers in the USA

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I have seen you have raised some questions regarding birds IDs in the forum. If you are also interested in birdwatching (or at least identifying your garden visitors), I would sugest you to get the "Field Guide ofthe Birds of North America" from the National Geographic. There are many good birds guides for USA, but I think this is the best you can have: nice format, nice price, excellent drawings and description... and iy you can, get also a binocular but be carefull, birdwatching can catch you in a worst way as orchids... and can also be more expensive (you don't need to buy much, a good guide a nd good binoculars are enough, but then you start planning funny tribs to the forest in Timbuktuk )

[cb977]

Thanks for the replies

Adam, while doing my own research, I also thought it might be a Pine Warbler but the sound part wasn't the same call I've been hearing and the pics I saw of the warbler made the bird look a little pudgier than the bird in my yard.

Ramon, I think you may have hit it right on the head! The colors look the same and the call is closer to what I've been hearing from these two.

I'm going to try to get closer pictures and pay more attention to the sounds they make.

Thanks for the help guys

[Dorothy]

Here are some pics for comparison
Greater Crested Flycatcher - http://identify.whatbird.com/img/4/4323/image.aspx
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/birds/GCflycatcher.jpg
Brown Crested Flycatcher - http://identify.whatbird.com/img/4/4164/image.aspx
http://resources.edb.gov.hk/biology/...Flycatcher.jpg
http://www.geometer.org/TT2004/TT/images/Flycatcher.jpg

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by cb977

Thanks for the replies
Ramon, I think you may have hit it right on the head! The colors look the same and the call is closer to what I've been hearing from these two.

I'm going to try to get closer pictures and pay more attention to the sounds they make.

Thanks for the help guys

sweetheart birdwatching is my second passion I used to work as Bird Watching field guide in Venezuela... and have also several bird watching tours in USA (from Florida to Hawaii) find attached two of my favorites from the last BW trip in USA:

1. Heermann's Gulls (with Herring Gull) and
2. Nene (Hawaiian goose)

[cb977]

sweetheart

LOL...I love seeing all the different birds around but I do not have the patience to sit and actually wait for them to come around. Just the few minutes it took to get yesterday's photos was nerve-wracking! I could've been playing with the chids!

By the way, the Hawaiian Goose is awesome!

[cb977]

D, thanks for the links!

That last photo is exactly what my bird looks like!
Very cool!

[kavanaru]

well, I am also not a "hard core" birder.. I don't stay and wait too long for them