tags: Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa, photographed in a backyard in Stanwood, Washington. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Dan Logen, 27 September 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D300, 600 mm Nikon VR lens ISO 800 1/80 f/5.6.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Can you give us "furriners" a clue?. Is it Washington state or DC? The only bird which might have yellow feet I can think of is 1st year male Northern Parula, which is only a vagrant to the NW states. It does look small and there is a flash of yellow and green. Other than this I'm stumped.
ps This is how most of my photos turn out as well.
Looks like a dove or some species of gull. Hard to make out from just the feet! They are all wrong for gull feet, but the coloration of the bird itself looks so much like that I had to throw it in. The feet (along with the color) look not unlike a whitewing.
This is a challenge. I'm thinking Passiformes. The Sky Lark has the lighter colored feet mostly white underneath look and Sibley's says there's a small population near Vancouver, just across Juan de Fuca Strait from Stanwood, WA, per my atlas...
the feet and their color (and color pattern!) are a very important clue. ruthie is on the right track (but not quite there, keep examining those field guides!)
For some reason I'm thinking the scale is deceptive and this is a teeny little Golden-crowned Kinglet. Yellow top of head, yellow in wings, white wingbar...
Hugh: Yes, the golden-crowned kinglet, Passiformes, light colored feet with darker legs, and the yellow on the crown is suggested in this photo. So those aren't big rocks but pebbles!
Yes Hugh and Ruthie, not only the yellow crown suggested but also the black border beneath it... black legs, yellow feet- Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)... but because of the yellow crown not immature, but impossible to distinguish gender as the orange center to the yellow crown in males is often hidden when not even in a blurred photo!
And then there is the question of which of the five subspecies it could be... clarus and aztecus are more Mexico, and satrapa is from southern Canada to north-east US... so either apache from south-west Canada through the Cascades and Rockies, or olivaceous, south-east Alaska and extreme south-west Canada through coastal western US
Now I know where Stanwood is (I'll have to get a better atlas), I agree with Golden-crowned Kinglet, at least I was close on size.