Looking at the entire series of photos of this bird, this is a Great Crested Flycatcher. The head/face/throat is appropriately gray and the yellow underparts are extensive, leading up to the upper breast. Ash-throated Flycatcher is a very pale bird - with underparts exceedingly paler then this individual, and pale yellow far more restricted to the lower belly and under tail coverts, as well as a far paler breast, throat and face. Great Cresteds are typically mid-story to canopy foragers but will work lower, secondary growth as well.
Jen Brumfield
Cleveland, OH
www.jenbrumfield.com
On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to bite the bullet and go through the work of uploading all the
> pictures of the myiarchus sp flycatcher. They are on my flickr feed:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/haans42/
>
> I have big issues with photo ID because people only look at the pictures
> and tend to get into the minutia. Let me attempt to head a bit of that off
> by saying the bird is much darker and more colorful in the pictures because
> I used my standard photo settings. This means under exposing by 0.3 to
> 0.7 (Olympus scale) because I later adjust levels and saturation to get a
> more true to life image. In this case none of these photos have had that
> done. Also the bird is in deep shade and it was mostly cloudy with the sun
> only coming out occasionally. All of that said I know these details will be
> ignored by 98% of the people who make a call based upon these photos.
>
> They will also ignore my observation that this bird appeared smaller than a
> Great Crested. As well as the odd behavior it has exhibited over the
> several times I have seen it. That is coming low in the trees
>
> So far people sending me off list email favor Ash-throated. This is
> mostly from people out west who have extensive experience with that species.
>
> I am very much hoping that someone with extensive experience with myiarchus
> species will weigh in on this bird and take into account my observations.
> the exposure value, and not just the photos as presented.
>
> I find things problematic with Ash-throated but these only appear in a few
> images. The most obvious is that on one or two pictures the tertial edges
> appear to be highly contrasting. But in other pictures they do not. In
> some pictures you can see some paleness at the base of the bill. But in
> the best images this is not the case at all.
>
> One last thing. If someone tries to call this an Ash-throatedXGreat
> Crested hybrid I will find them in real life and make their life miserable.
> Please don't go there. :-)
>
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