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UPDATE: female Western Tanager? What's this bird?

Posted on September 19th, 2009 by Craig Newmark

Gf Doesn't seem to be an American Goldfinch or a Lesser Goldfinch.

(photo courtesy of the gf)

John Callendar, who's been very good at this, seems to confirm it's a female Western Tanager. Check out the remote video photo during our webcam experiment.

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4 Responses to UPDATE: female Western Tanager? What's this bird?

September 20, 2009 at 9:09 am
John Callender says:

Agreed as to it being a female Western Tanager.
We had a shot of one on your deck during the CONE Sutro Forest run, I think, but we never got enough votes to get an official ID. That was on May 7, 2007. See:
http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/08/well-hello-little-lady/
and
http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/12/01/two-that-got-away/
This bird looks quite similar to that one. Two and a half years is a long time in the life of a small songbird, but I can't help wondering if this could be the same individual bird.
Neat shot! Thanks for posting it.