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Olive-backed Pipit & Pin-tailed Whydah
MEGA! 2nd California Record (first chaseable), 3rd lower 48 Record. Found by Jeff Bray.
The other bird is a young Pin-tailed Whydah. These birds have been steadily expanding their range in Southern California and will probably soon join the ranks of the Scaly-breasted Munias (whom they use as a brood parasite) as an established exotic in California. Interesting photo of an African exotic with an Asian vagrant in North America.
Note bicolored split supercillium, black ear covert, bold streaking down flanks, buffy tones on the breast, light streaking on back, olive back, and olive secondaries.
11-01-14 Yorba Regional Park, Orange County CA
Olive-backed Pipit & Pin-tailed Whydah
MEGA! 2nd California Record (first chaseable), 3rd lower 48 Record. Found by Jeff Bray.
The other bird is a young Pin-tailed Whydah. These birds have been steadily expanding their range in Southern California and will probably soon join the ranks of the Scaly-breasted Munias (whom they use as a brood parasite) as an established exotic in California. Interesting photo of an African exotic with an Asian vagrant in North America.
Note bicolored split supercillium, black ear covert, bold streaking down flanks, buffy tones on the breast, light streaking on back, olive back, and olive secondaries.
11-01-14 Yorba Regional Park, Orange County CA