Hi All-- Erika and I banded 22 Cedar Waxwings all caught at the same time in Northfield today, 13 October 2009. One was interesting: it had a tricolored tail! Its right outer tail feather tip was white. The central feathers where yellow-tipped. the left two outer feathers were orange-tipped.
I have read about orange-tipped waxwing feathers before. See, for example: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/v063n02/p0212-p0216.html I have never heard of tricolored tail tips. Here is a photo of our bird: http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/misc/waxwingtail.jpg dan and erika -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://danerika.googlepages.com/home http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika [email protected] ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
