Wednesday, 23 January 2013

[cobirds] Redpoll ID

Hi, all.


Andy Boyce, formerly of Colorado, has a thought-provoking post this morning at The ABA Blog:


http://blog.aba.org/2013/01/open-mic-redpolls.html


Andy's topic is how to ID Hoary Redpolls, or perhaps how *not* to...


Anyhow, great stuff in there, including a detailed and thoughtful response from Bill Schmoker.


Increasingly, I'm thinking of the finch family as the final frontier of bird ID: the multiple "types" of Red Crossbills and now Evening Grosbeaks; hybrids and species limits in rosy-finches; molt and vocal mimicry in goldfinches...


Me? I think I'm gonna stick with orange-variant House Finches... :-)


Ted Floyd

tedfloyd57@hotmail.com

Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado

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