tags: Blue Mountain Vireo, Vireo osburni, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery birds] Blue Mountain Vireo, Vireo osburni, photographed at Portland Gap, Blue Mountains, Jamaica. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Paul Jones, 18 March 2009 [larger view].
Canon 30-D, 300f4 lens, 1/250 at f4, 320 ISO.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Fairly small bird, passerine found in Jamaica, Blue Mountain area, looks like a Vireo of some kind...
Blue Mountain Vireo?
No idea. But you're making me wish I was in a Caribbean forest.
I would go for Jamaican Euphonia (Eupnonia jamaica). The shape is not right for for Blue Mountain Vireo. The bill is too stubby and the eye lacks any reddish color.
My daughter's identification:
"That's a cute little bird."
It looks to be a vireo. In the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Dark eye. No apparent wingbars.
Conclusion: Blue Mountain vireo?
Still, may be some North American migrant under bad lighting...
I wonder if it is an inmature Jamaican Euphonia.