Not seen in the last 2.5 hours Bird on platform is a peregrine
Bert Harris, Princeton NJ Sent from my phone On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Larry Federman <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody see the gyr today? Might make a run out there. > Thx! > Larry > > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Feb 27, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Luke Ormand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The following is from Jerry Liguori (author of several books on raptors) >> which he made to me after seeing Doug Gochfelds photos: >> >> "It is an adult. It has molted once, you can see some retained juv upperwing >> coverts. So, it is in its first year of adulthood. This plumage is identical >> to older adults in all regards except fleshy part coloration, which varies >> in the rate it changes from bluish to yellow between sexes (males a bit >> quicker -- in Prairie Falcon too, of which I show a spring in-hand juv male >> in HFEA [hawks from every angle]), and between the larger falcons. The legs, >> cere, and orbital ring are a typical color for this age. Of the falcons, it >> takes Gyr the longest for the fleshy parts to change color, and it is the >> feet that change quicker....but this also varies." >> >> Jerry Liguori >> >> -- >> - Luke >> >> www.birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com >> >> www.wildlongisland.blogspot.com >> -- >> NYSbirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
