This bird has distinctive eyebrows and breast markings. Because of the eyebrows, it is not a Swainson's, Hermit or Wood Thrush . There is no bird in Tveten's book that matches this one, but Alsop includes the Northern Waterthrush that seems to be this bird.

"Forages on ground by picking up leaves with its bill ... Eats aquatic and terrestrial adult insects, catepillars, and case worms ... Frequents areas with dense shrub and slowly moving or still water" (450). That describes where this specimen was and what it was doing.

"Narrow buff to white eye stripes of uniform color and width, smaller bill, streaked and spotted throat; pale yellow to white underparts with darker, more uniform streaking, olive-brown to gray-brown upperparts, dull pink legs and feet ..." (451)

The Louisianna Waterthrush ­ the closest bird to this one ­ is less common, has a longer stouter bill, has bright pink legs and feet, has an unmarked white throat, and its white supercilium broadens behind the eye.

This shows the throat pattern of the Northern Waterthrush.