Hi, all. Andy Boyce, formerly of Colorado, has a thought-provoking post this morning at The ABA Blog:
http://blog.aba.org/2013/01/open-mic-redpolls.html Andy's topic is how to ID Hoary Redpolls, or perhaps how *not* to... Anyhow, great stuff in there, including a detailed and thoughtful response from Bill Schmoker. Increasingly, I'm thinking of the finch family as the final frontier of bird ID: the multiple "types" of Red Crossbills and now Evening Grosbeaks; hybrids and species limits in rosy-finches; molt and vocal mimicry in goldfinches... Me? I think I'm gonna stick with orange-variant House Finches... :-) Ted Floyd [email protected] Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
