Tony Leukering has a fine article on how molt timing can help us ID Horned/Eared grebes at this time of year:
http://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/26.pdf Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 9:25:35 AM UTC-6, David Waltman wrote: > > A few days ago I saw several Horned Grebes at Boulder Reservoir. I also > viewed one or two confusing birds that I reported as Horned/Eared Grebe. > Kenn Kaufman's Facebook page notes that at this time of the year as birds > have begun to molt out of winter plumage "it can be tougher to ID things > like Eared Grebes vs Horned Grebes." He goes on to say that Shakespeare > understood this. Kaufman says "That's why, in Shakespeare's play 'Julius > Caesar,' a soothsayer utters the famous line: 'Beware the ID's of March!'" > I "liked" that. > David Waltman > Boulder > -- 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/a042bd39-e743-413f-9a9a-06df7350c9f8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
