'Siberian Chiffchaff' type with 'fulvescens' traits |
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Hams Hall, Warwickshire, UK, December 2016. Photos Alan Dean.
© A. R. Dean
Note prominent yellowish-olive fringes to remiges, rectrices, wing-coverts and scapulars : far more evident than in 'classic' tristis (see main Gallery images). Also yellow tinge in upper eye-ring.
© A. R. Dean
Comparison of 'Siberian Chiffchaff' type with 'fulvescens' traits
and Common Chiffchaff of nominate form collybita.
Note generally tristis-like grey-brown upperparts and off-white
underparts of 'fulvescens' bird, lacking the overall more-colourful, olive and
yellow appearance of collybita.
However, 'fulvescens' bird also has pronounced yellowish-olive fringes to
remiges, rectrices, coverts and lower scapulars plus a yellow tinge above eye.
The extent and prominence of 'misplaced' olive and yellow implicate
introgression from abietinus and would preclude this individual being
logged as an unequivocal tristis.