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Phainopepla nitens
my first thought is a juvenile phainopeppla.But the white coloring on the wings?Thanks for the ID ,Ashley.you rock!
oak and pine and sycamore habitat
Spotted on Apr 13, 2017
Submitted on Apr 13, 2017
16 Comments
I see white edges on the wings
Visually too it looked totally black.Not only in the photo!
Just the moving photo it looks gray.
I understand your point Jellis.But then how do we explain the black color of the bird.It was surely not gray!
Females are gray with white edges on wings showing, males are glossy black with no white showing except in flight.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Phai...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/144...
this bird hear was clearly gray.Both were together side by side on the same tree.
But any juvenile black it would lose the white edges. The bird you have is gray. It is silhouetted in the photos.
can a female be black?
Even a juvenile male would be gray.
Do not mean to argue! Any possibility it is a juvenile male?
This is a female. Males you don't see the white on the edges, just a white patch when they fly. Males are glossy and females are gray.
Yes I was there Saturday. Saw and heard the Calliope but they were not being cooperative to photograph. Also saw Nashville & Black-throated Gray Warblers. Ash-throated Flycatcher and many other birds but going to go back on Sunday.
this was pitch black.
Thanks s o much Jellis.Have you been to Mitchell canyon lately? I was there for the very first time.The rains have brought in some wild life here.I saw a gray fox in the neighborhood.
They have more then one song or call.
It's a phainopepla. They have white patches on their wings and I guess you can just see them with the way he's holding his wings while sitting there.
crest was prominent.Song did not sound like that of a phainopepla on you tube.