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Birders! Bird id needed: what small NE american bird has a yellow line on it's tail?
small bird, finch-looking (tho i could be wrong, maybe warbler or such). greyish brownish, but with redish head like a house finch (only not as bright as a house finch) and yellowish belly. Most distinctive feature is the thin stripe of yellow on the very tip of the tail, alsmot lie someone took the bird in their fist and dipped the very end of the tail in yellow paint for use as a paint brush! Not that anyone did this, just what the tail looked like. also looked like had 2 streaks on the back of a lighteter grey/brown between the wings.
seen hopping about on a roof among starlings and robins in a park-like area. pretty bird :)
oh, the yellow on the tail looks like cedar waxwing's yellow on the tail, but it is a much smaller bird. also it has pattern on the head of some sort, but i couldn't make it out. it wasn't solid-color head.
can't find lousy bird in whatbird website :(
lousy bird.
not a redstart. yellow was on very tip of the tail like on a waxwing. redstart has yellow in the middle of the tail. small finchy-warbler-vireo-looking bird.
maybe someone DID catch some darned house finch and dip the tail in paint... sheesh! kingbird is closer. was light yellow solid belly and light red solid head. darned mutant mystery painted birds....
sorry, not solid red head. only bottom of head (neck) looked like that. the top did have some stripy thing going on. maybe a kingbird after all?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it could of been American redstart female!
how long were you looking at the bird and what was it feeding on?
the only other bird with a yellow/light stripe on the bottom of its tail is the eastern king bird.
- 1 decade ago
Not sure off the top of my head, and I dont have my book with me. But try this site. Its really easy to use and helpful when trying to figure a bird out.
