Did anyone see this one coming??--a proposal to split the Northern Cardinal into *six (6)* species! This is gonna be more fun than crossbills...
http://checklist.aou.org/nacc/proposals/PDF/2015-B.pdf Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 6:20:24 PM UTC-7, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hello, Birders. > > This President's Day morning, Feb. 16, Andrew Floyd and I were trudging > through the deep and drifted snow in the North Boulder foothills, when what > should appear at the tippy top of a tall tree but a gloriously crimson > adult male *Northern Cardinal.* It was in fact the first bird we saw. It > was practically the only bird we saw. > > This bird is surely the individual that has been present in and around > Hawthorne Gulch for more than two years now. We phoned Thomas Heinrich, > Keeper of the Cardinal, and he joined us to gawk at the bird. It just > stayed there the whole time, on its high perch, like the star atop a > Christmas tree. > > Ted Floyd > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/2412b07e-f9ad-4429-8d57-72a9195f1c14%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
