Date: 4/10/26 10:30 pm From: Isabelle Davignon via groups.io <isa1212123...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Wing Street Piranga sp.
In case it is useful information, I took a horrible photo of a bird I couldn’t identify at Wing Street Canyon on March 21st. I had recorded the male Hepatic Tanager in eBird (list here https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/checklist/S311738627) and made note that I thought there might be a 2nd individual Hepatic Tanager with red and yellow. I saw it in the exact same spot in the tree where I had twice seen the male Hepatic Tanager that morning, and it flew across in the same direction as the male Hepatic Tanager, across the path towards the large tree and beyond. My photo is terrible, it flew away before I could get a photo and I only caught a this one that shows the abdomen and under tail when it had flown across the path and paused for a second in the far tree beyond the path.
Adding here in case there is a possibility the hybrid was there as early as 3/21st. Please let me know if you can tell from this that it is not, or if you can tell what it actually is. I have not added to eBird other than as a note within the Hepatic Tanager entry since I couldn’t id.

Thanks
Isabelle.
> On Apr 8, 2026, at 9:39 AM, Michelle Reilly via groups.io <reilhag...> wrote:
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> For anyone interested, the Tanager(hybrid?) was seen again today. New photos on today's list:
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> https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/checklist/S318783147 >
> Michelle Haglund
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> "there is still good in this world and it's worth fighting for”...Sam Gamgee
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> On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM Philip Unitt via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <unitt...> <mailto:<cox.net...>> wrote:
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>> Has anyone considered the possibility that this bird could be Foudia madagascariensis? Back in 1991 I got a call from a woman who said she had been seeing a pair of Vermilion Flycatchers around her house in La Mesa for about 6 weeks, then the male flew into a window and killed itself. I asked her to bring it to the San Diego Natural History Museum, and when I saw the specimen, what was my surprise to see it was not a Vermilion Flycatcher but a species of the weaver family from Madagascar. Now catalog number 47510 in the museum's research collection of birds. So there is a precedent.
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>> Good birding,
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>> Philip Unitt
>> San Diego
>> On Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 07:16:46 AM PDT, Mark Stratton via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <zostropz...> <mailto:<gmail.com...>> wrote:
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>> The Hybrids for Flame-colored and Western do have a cheek patch, I believe it's a lighter patch and maybe even greenish if I remember correctly. I didn't notice one on the Wing St. bird.
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>> Mark Stratton
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>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 7:36 PM Susan Smith via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <seiurus...> <mailto:<aol.com...>> wrote:
>> Has Western x Flame-colored Tanager hybrid been eliminated? I think some have showed up in AZ.
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>> Susan Smith
>> Seiurus Biological Consulting
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>> On Monday, April 6, 2026 at 06:32:57 PM PDT, Andrew N via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <floodshark...> <mailto:<gmail.com...>> wrote:
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>> For record keeping sake, that bird has been floating around there for at least a week. Flew under the radar on Michelle H's checklist from the 30th.
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>> https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/checklist/S314926459 >>
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>> Susan Smith
>> Seiurus Biological Consulting
>> Del Mar, CA
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