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Published: 2011-07-10 03:20:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 532; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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I like this picture because it reminds me of my seahorse shot:And also of this one:
Other birds from the same exhibit:
Sudan Golden Sparrow, Passer luteus (thanks ~EagleFlyte and ~oskila !)
National Aviary, Pittsburgh
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This is a lovely picture... I was looking for "Yellow Sparrows" I'm study them because I want to paint some. This is a beautiful shot!
It would seen amazing as a poster in a living room.
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Thank you, glad you liked my photo! If you ended up making any artwork of yellow sparrows, I'd love to see
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I have my incomplete yellow sparrow, waiting for me to finish it...
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Ooh, I see the similarity! Nice. ^-^ That tree is really rather marine-looking.
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It does indeed look like a Sudan Golden Sparrow (a male to be precise). Shape, colors and wing pattern are all the correct ones.
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Hmm, that's a possibility! Did you get that off the Aviary's site too? I don't think they have all their Grasslands birds up on the website yet, the exhibit is too new.
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I looked up the species name on the aviary's site, and then I did a Google search and compared those photos with yours. The Saffron finch was all yellow, with no brown on the wings; then I tried the Sudan Golden Sparrow and found it to be a match!
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It isn't a North American bird. It's not a warbler, oriole, or any golfinch that is native to the U.S. that's as much as I know though.
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Thanks for narrowing it down 
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It might be a saffron finch. I visited the National Aviary two year ago, and I saw that exhibit!
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Wow, how did you manage to do that? The Grasslands exhibit only opened last year!
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it wasn't the new free-fly exhibit; it was that small tanked exhibit they had before.
Sorry for the confusion!
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Assuming this to be a native bird (because of the particular Grass Lands exibit) and assuming that it isn't a hybrid, the American & Lesser Goldfinches are the best candidates, with the American Goldfinch being the most likely because of the apparently white undertail coverts.
The Orchard Oriole is a remote possibility because the angle of the head, the lighting and the partly fluffed feathers could be misleading.
The modest, conical bill eliminates most warblers such as the Blue-Winged (which also has an eye streak) and the Pine (which doesn't have a yellow head).
I'm interested to hear other opinions.
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It's not necessarily a native bird - the "grasslands" they're referring to are all over the world. They've got birds from a bunch of different continents.
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I think it's either a Blue-Winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus) or a Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus). I'm leaning more towards the pine warbler, though, because of the absents of the black mask that the blue-winged warblers usually have.
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The markings do resemble those of the two warblers you mentioned, but the beak shape doesn't seem like a warbler's. Also, *Ryser915 says that it is not a warbler or even from North America. Thanks for the guesses though!
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