It is quite the twitching scene in Rhiwderin for the second record of Yellow-throated Warbler Common Yellowthroat in Wales and the eleventh in the United Kingdom. Over a thousand birders have seen the bird so far. I don’t know why all the excitement – there are plenty of Yellow-throated Warblers in Florida (or Common Yellowthroats in New York) for the watching…
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Looks like the newspaper got that wrong. It’s a Common Yellowthroat: http://www.gwentbirding.blogspot.com/2012/02/done-and-done.html
The article got the species wrong. It is not a Yellow-throated Warbler but a Common Yellowthroat, see here:
http://uk400clubrarebirdalert.blogspot.com/2012/02/common-yellowthroat-in-gwent-8th.html
Of course this matters little as both species are equally amazing in the UK. Anvious? Me?!? Noooo.
Wait, I’m wrong. Looks like there’s one of each.
Nope, right the first time. I assumed the photo of the YT Warbler on the newspaper site was the bird in question. I guess it’s a stock photo.
Hi Nate, parallel commenting, ey? Nice!!
Yes, the photo in the article also confused me. But as you mention, I guess it’s a photo grabbed somewhere off the Internet.
Oh yeah: I know it’s “E-nvious”, it was a typo, okay?
Thanks guys, fixed.