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[Mystery bird] Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus, photographed at Port Bolivar, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 13 January 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/320s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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I believe that's a Pine Warbler. It's a bird I haven't seen much (hm. at all?) since I was a kid kicking around at my grandparents' house in Florida, but this bird seems to match the Sibley illustration pretty well. I'm thinking this might be a male, because of the overall brightness of the bird, but I'm not sure about that.
Specific field marks: "yellow 'spectacles'", "dark auriculars", "indistinct olive streaks on sides of breast", and "white belly and undertail coverts" (again, per Sibley).
Looks like a classic male Pine Warbler to me. Unless it's a trick.