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English and Scientific names: |
Townsend's
Warbler, Dendroica townsendi
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Number of individuals: |
1, female or
1st fall male
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Locality: |
Cameron
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Specific Locality: |
Peveto Woods
Sanctuary
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Date(s) when observed: |
September 20,
2010
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Time(s) of day when observed: |
12:00 noon to
1:00PM
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Reporting observer and address: |
Dave Patton
Lafayette, LA
70506
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Other observers
accompanying reporter who also identified the bird(s): |
Melvin Weber
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Other observers who
independently identified the bird(s) |
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Light conditions
(position of bird in relation to shade and to direction and amount of light): |
Partly cloudy, followed bird around with good light from
different directions.
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Optical equipment: |
binoculars
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Distance to bird(s): |
20 feet to 100
feet
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Duration of observation: |
about 1 hour
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Habitat: |
Chenier woods.
Mostly Live Oaks with rag weed understory.
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Behavior of bird: |
Feeding actively in a small mixed flock of passerines. Calling often at 20 to 30 second intervals. Working the
branches and leaves of the Live Oaks without much concern to our observing
it. Often perching in the open, but quickly moving on. After an hour, it had
made a large feeding circuit within the sanctuary and was back where we first
saw it.
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Description: |
Medium size canopy feeding warbler. Dull green crown with yellow supercilium. Dark brownish cheek patch with distinct yellow crescent below the
eye. Yellow stripe below the cheek patch and curving
back around the patch. Throat yellow with dirty
irregular black splotches as if a young male forming a full patch. Near continuous line across the lower throat with a yellow breast
below it. Dark streaking on the sides of the breast.
W!
hite
belly. Dark green back and wings with two bright white wing
bars.
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Voice: |
Rather flat
chip note given frequently while foraging.
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Similar species: |
Black-throated
Green Warbler. This one had a bright yellow breast below the dark throat.
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Photographs or tape
recordings obtained? |
Canon digital SLR with 300 mm lens.
by Dave Patton, attached |
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Previous experience with
this species: |
Seen a few out west |
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Identification aids: |
Sibley's at time. |
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This description is written from: |
Memory and looking at photos. |
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Are you positive of your
identification? If not, explain: |
Yes |
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Date and time: |
Sept
21, 2010, 5PM |