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Hybrid vigor

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Hybrid vigor

Prospect Park, 12–13 May 2023

Caleb Crain
May 18, 2023
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A hybrid of a golden-winged warbler crossed with a blue-winged warbler, which in this case has a black eye mask, a white malar stripe, a black throat, and a belly with a yellowish wash, seen from below (yellow crown not visible from this angle)
Golden-winged warbler x blue-winged warbler hybrid
A columbine, a flower with three long orange-pink bells and bright yellow pistils
Columbine
A Blackburnian warbler, with a bright orange throat and forehead
Blackburnian warbler
The head and shoulders of a bay-breasted warbler, with a crimson crown and breast, a yellow patch on its neck, and a dusty black face
Bay-breasted warbler
A parent and child raccoon, lolling in the fork of a tree
Raccoons
A prairie warbler, with bright yellow face, breast, and belly, and black stripes across face and sides
Prairie warbler
A vocalizing parent and a fledgling child Carolina wren, perched on a single branch
Carolina wrens
A fledgling Carolina wren, doing its best impression of a bullfrog
Close-up of the face of a female common yellowthroat
Common yellowthroat (female)
The yellow throat and breast and slate-blue face of a Northern parula
Northern parula

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