Thanks, Brandon, for the exhortation to pay attention to white-breasted nuthatches. Steve Mlodinow provides a superb review in *Birding*:
http://aba.org/birding/2014-MAY-JUN/14-3_08Mlodinow-R4.pdf Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 5:29:16 AM UTC-7, Brandon wrote: > > Hi all, > > Would people going on Colorado CBCs be interested in keeping track of the > sub-species of White-breasted Nuthatches on your Colorado CBCs this year? > This year you can enter Eastern White-breasted Nuthatch and Interior > White-breasted Nuthatch, if you see/hear any on your Christmas Bird Counts > (mostly Easterns on found Eastern Plains counts, though it is possible to > see them on the Front Range too). It might be nice to report the number of > Easterns on Colorado CBCs this year (in-case they get split sometime). The > Easterns have pale blue backs and sound like Red-breasted Nuthatches, and > the Interior ones have darker blue backs. Compilers who wish, can add > Eastern and Interior White-breasted Nuthatches to your list, of course you > get both, it only counts as one species. > > > -- 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/b8cdb47f-b9f8-4424-af1d-38ac21accc74%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
