kkchang168

As there is no pale edges to tertials, seem not to be a Yellow-browed Warbler. Is it a Greenish Warbler?

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8/03/2013 11:36

ajohn

I would say that this is a Yellow-browed Warbler.
I think it does have pale edges to the tertials, and it also has a darker base to the secondaries, another good feature for Yellow-browed.

kkchang168

Thank you very much. Maybe I misunderstand what is tertials.

badesc

http://www.birding.in/bird_topography.htm

badesc

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Original posted by kkchang168 at 8/03/2013 18:52
Thank you very much. Maybe I misunderstand what is tertials.

Perhaps the following has been posted somewhere on this forum already, but via the Oriental Bird Club Yahoo! Group I came upon slides on identification of Phylloscopus and Seicercus warblers:

English: http://www.slu.se/Global/externw ... -2012%20English.pdf
Chinese: http://www.slu.se/Global/externw ... ov-2012-Chinese.pdf

Both can be downloaded at the bottom of Per Alström's site: http://www.slu.se/per-alstrom-research.

Pages 6 and 7 show a picture of a warbler and its topography. This will be helpful to you, I guess.