Field notes, July - Dec, Species Accounts: Cepphus to Calcarius, v1542
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Remsen, J.V. 1973 Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina Nov. 10 Desert Center, Riverside Co, Calif: 1 ♀ in same palm tree where Guy McCaskie + Jon Dunn had found it week before. It remains inside the palm foliage feeding on flies swarming over the rotting palm fruit (small dull berries). Extremely tame, allowed incredible close approach, and would not leave the tree unless all four of us shook the fronds violently. A lifer for me — but an extremely nondescript bird: like Yellow-rumped but had a yellow patch below the eye in the auricular region that is apparently diagnostic; shorter tail without conspicuous spots; yellow rump, but more greenish-yellow than the lemon yellow of the Audubons; smaller overall body; streaks on breast more uniform in outline and pattern; call soft and different.