ML646120218

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With the Orange-crowned Warbler and Virginia's Warbler, this was a drab, 1st year bird that foraged like the Orange-cr. by probing leaf clusters and looking in curled leaves by inserting its bill. We never saw it wag its tail. The breast and undertail were fairly bright yellow, with the intervening area of the underparts washed dull along the flanks and whitish on lower belly to behind the legs. The throat was dull white. The head was grayish, and there was a thin, white eyering. The bill was fine and sharply pointed. While likely nominate ruficapilla, we did not see the rump well (marginally brighter in western birds) or hear it call (slight difference in tink call could help identify a western ridgwayi, which sound more like Virginia's tink call).