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Immature
female at Magens Bay, St. Thomas, 12 November 2002. Photos © by Floyd
Hayes. First record for St. Thomas and fourth record for the Virgin Islands.
Found by Floyd Hayes and Brett Hayes on 11 November 2002, this bird
foraged primarily on black berries in a tree with four Blackpoll
Warblers (D. striata) and an immature male Cape May Warbler (D. tigrina);
all six birds were present both days. In comparison with a Blackpoll
Warbler photographed in the same tree (see photo E below), note the
creamy buff colouration and faint streaking on the breast (A-D; more
yellow and boldly streaked in Blackpoll), the creamy buff flanks and
undertail coverts contrasting with the white belly (A and D; whiter in
Blackpoll), and the entirely dark legs and feet (C and D; paler in
Blackpoll). The only previous records of Bay-breasted Warbler from the
Virgin Islands include specimens collected at St. Croix on 5 May 1935
(United States National Museum, Washington, DC) and 23 October 1940
(Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Pashley, D. N. 1988.
Warblers of the West Indies. I. The Virgin Islands. Caribbean Journal of Science 24:11-22), and an adult female or immature male seen at Bordeaux
Mountain Road, St. John, on 13 October 2002 by Floyd Hayes and Brett
Hayes.
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