Flavescent Warbler vs White-rimmed Warbler

Flavescent Warbler

Myiothlypis flaveola

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The flavescent warbler is about 14.5 cm (5.7 in) long and weighs 9 to 16 g (0.32 to 0.56 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an olive-green crown, a yellow supercilium that becomes olive-yellow past the eye, a dusky stripe through the eye, a yellow crescent under the eye, and yellow cheeks and ear coverts. Their nape, upperparts, wings, and tail are olive-green. Their throat and underparts are yellow. They have a dark iris, a blackish bill, and orange-pink legs and feet. Subspecies M. f. Voice: The song of the flavescent warbler's nominate subspecies is a "double-voiced series, basically an extr. high series of 5-6 fififi-fififi- notes; after the 1st two notes, mid-high tjeh-tjeh-ejeh-tjeh is interwoven". That of M. f. pallidirostris is "sharp, jerky, and delivered quickly, ek, Ease-a Ease-a, E, chéw-chéw-chéw or seeka-seeka-SEETA, chew-chew-chew".

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White-rimmed Warbler

Myiothlypis leucoblephara

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The white-rimmed warbler is about 14.5 cm (5.7 in) long and weighs 14 to 21 g (0.49 to 0.74 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a mostly gray head with a blackish gray stripe in the middle of the crown, a white stripe above the lores, a thin black line through the eye, white crescents above and below the eye, and whitish cheeks. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are olive-green. Their throat and underparts are mostly whitish with a gray wash on the sides of the breast, an olive wash on the upper flanks, and pale olivaceous-yellow undertail coverts. Voice: The white-rimmed warbler's song is a "fairly long series of fee notes, which start at extr. high level and then descend very steeply to 5 notes lower. Its call is "a sharp penetrating pseeyk".

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