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Birds in Nature - images of wild birds by Richard Ditch |
Subject: Hybrid Gray-crowned X Common
Yellowthroat
Place: San Ygnacio, TX, USA
Date: February 1996
Equipment: Nikon 8008, Nikkor EDIF 400/5.6 & TC14 converter (=
560/8), tripod
Film: Fuji Sensia 400
Exposure: aperture priority center-weighted meter
Scan: Minolta Dimage; 50% of frame?
Commentary: If you are an active birder, you may have seen
this very bird. It was reported for quite some time as a Gray-crowned
Yellowthroat, a rare warbler from Mexico that had once occurred in
this part of Texas along the Rio Grande. But experts debated
inconsistencies and eventually mist netted the bird for measurements.
I was in the Rio Grande Valley on a birding trip and went to see this
intriguing bird.
This image isn't wasn't made as Eye Candy, but to document
this rarity and allow me to study it in detail. You can read about
this very bird in Warblers by Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett, a
volume in the Peterson Field Guide series, on pages 538-539.
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