Left: Ruby-crowned kinglet; right: Hutton's vireo
So everything I've been calling a Hutton's vireo on campus is probably a ruby-crowned kinglet!
I was talking to my Stats professor, who is an avid birder, and he was telling me how nice it is this time of year with all the kinglets hiding out in the patches of rhododendron. And then I said I've been seeing lots of vireos in the rhododendron...And then we did this:
But do they not look very similar?! Arrrrgh! You know this isn't the first time I called a kinglet something else. For some reason my mind never makes that connection. Next time, will note the thinner bill and single wing bar. I also never saw the ruby crest so that would have been an obvious indicator:
But do they not look very similar?! Arrrrgh! You know this isn't the first time I called a kinglet something else. For some reason my mind never makes that connection. Next time, will note the thinner bill and single wing bar. I also never saw the ruby crest so that would have been an obvious indicator:
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