Nashville Warbler
Nashville Warbler is not particularly common in my home province of Alberta, Canada, so I was pleased to come upon quite a few in British Columbia, our neighbour to the west, on a trip in Spring, 2023. It certainly is a colourful species. This individual with a yellow throat is probably a male; many of these birds have a rufous crown patch but it is often hidden. The setting was east of the town of Winfield, near the city of Kelowna in the Central Okanagan district.
(Maybe once the changes that are coming [this is written in Dec. 2023] in the common names of birds called after people are done, there will be an effort to more descriptively name some species—such as this one—whose title after a geographic area is not helpful or even accurate. Then the common names of some species which are misleading or vague [hello Ring-necked Duck] could be tackled, though all this could take a while…)
Nashville Warbler
Nashville Warbler is not particularly common in my home province of Alberta, Canada, so I was pleased to come upon quite a few in British Columbia, our neighbour to the west, on a trip in Spring, 2023. It certainly is a colourful species. This individual with a yellow throat is probably a male; many of these birds have a rufous crown patch but it is often hidden. The setting was east of the town of Winfield, near the city of Kelowna in the Central Okanagan district.
(Maybe once the changes that are coming [this is written in Dec. 2023] in the common names of birds called after people are done, there will be an effort to more descriptively name some species—such as this one—whose title after a geographic area is not helpful or even accurate. Then the common names of some species which are misleading or vague [hello Ring-necked Duck] could be tackled, though all this could take a while…)