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Observation details
An excellent find by Valerie Heemstra from the day before. Bird was singing on suitable territory- a semi open willow shrub field with some spruce trees. Launched into the air several times to do courtship flight! Very cooperative and vocal! Bird was a little smaller than a cowbird, with a large flatten head, short primary projection and long tail with slight fork. Bill was all dark with the upper mandible having a noticeable downward curve to it on the distal tip. Grayish crown, black lores, white supercillum that extended slightly behind eye and formed a broken thin eyering below the eye. Back was a olive-brown color. Tail was olive-brown on upperside, white on underside. Undertail coverts and belly white, upper breast and throat brilliant yellow with some orange tones in throat. Identified as Eastern subspecies due to the brownish upper parts and the very thin white line separating the yellow throat from the black loral region.
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