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I have already posted a female Redstart for my fall warbler series, but I always hope to find a male.
St. Alberta, Alberta.
I have never been able to capture a decent image of this warbler species until now. This American Redstart was kind enough to give me a good look before flitting off to another perch. A rather common species in the area, but one that rarely sits still for any length of time. Their coloration is strikingly beautiful; black body feathers with red/orange plumage thrown in for good measure. Please view large for best experience.
My warbler run is about over. I hope to make it up north in the next 10 days or so for the warbler species that migrate up there. Maybe I can achieve my goal this year and image a Chestnut-sided warbler. We shall see.
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I normally don't shoot what I call "Tweety Birds". It's not that I don't like them, I do. I tend to look for predators and many of the smaller birds are photographed from setups where they look too perfect to my eye. Looking for hummers around Green Cay this morning, a local wildlife refuge, I saw this cute little bird which Linda helped me identify as an immature American Redstart. Thanks Linda. I need a lot more walking to work off yesterday's feast. Thanks to Linda and Jim for hosting.
The American Redstart is referred to as "the butterfly of the bird world" because of its quick fluttering motions and bright orange color on the wings and tail.
They are known by some in the tropics as the "latrine bird" because of their tendency to look for flies around outhouse and garbage dumps. They are also known there as the "Christmas bird" because they appear in the region around Christmas time.
Wikipedia: The American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) is a New World warbler. It is unrelated to the Old World (common) redstart. Their breeding is in North America, spanning southern Canada and the eastern United States. They are migratory, wintering in Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America, and are very rare vagrants to western Europe.
Conservation status: Least Concern
While I was photographing this American Redstart, I heard comments from several people about how challenging it is to get a good photo of one of these veritable perpetual motion machines. Is the constant motion of the bird though the dense vegetation wasn’t challenging enough, it was sunny providing some extreme contrast resulting in lots of blown highlights and distracting backgrounds. Thank goodness for digital!
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Setophaga ruticilla
Continuing with a mostly unplanned set of late season migratory birds. This female American Redstart posed jauntily on my garden fence in mid-August. Apparently the old wood is a great place to hunt tiny insects. Off and on for a couple weeks that part of my yard - which also has a few trees and shrubs - was a-hopping with warblers, sparrows, vireos, and other species that stop in our tiny prairie village on their way south.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The fall Warbler season begins.
I think this is a first fall male. Adult females and first fall individuals of both genders are similar in plumage.
An adult female would have an obvious yellow bar at the edge of the primary wing coverts.
A first fall female would have light olive feathers on the tail coverts. not black feathers like this one which indicates a male.
Emily Murphy Park, Edmonton, Alberta.
If you were a bug, you might be.
According to AllAboutBirds.org, the male American Redstart, such as the one shown here, "flashes the bright patches in its tail and wings. This seems to startle insect prey and gives the birds an opportunity to catch them."
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American Redstarts in their first year look a lot like females. They have touches on black in their plumage though which are the beginnings of their adult plumage.
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
Like the Painted Redstart and other “redstarts” of the Neotropics, the American Redstart flashes the bright patches in its tail and wings. This seems to startle insect prey and give the birds an opportunity to catch them. Though these birds share a common name, they are not closely related to each other. In fact, there are other unrelated birds around the world—such as the fantails of Australia and southeastern Asia, and other redstarts of Europe—that share the same foraging tricks.
"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
-Joan Walsh Anglund
It's a female American Redstart, photographed on a recent day at Chicago's Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. If you'd like to hear this bird's song, there are several variations that you can listen to at the following site: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Redstart/sounds
Avec un nom qui lui va parfaitement avec ses "flames" de chaque côté.
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