[cobirds] Houts Reservoir, Larimer Brant --- what flavor is it?

Greetings All

Methinks that the Brant inhabiting Houts Reservoir is a Gray-bellied Brant. This population is regulated by USFWS and is treated like a subspecies but has yet to receive a trinomial Latin name. They breed in the Western Canadian High Arctic and winter in Washington's northern Puget Sound. The population is something like 10,000 birds or so as I recall

There is a reasonable depiction of this "taxon" in the more recent National Geo Guides. The Sibley Guide is to be ignored on this topic

Photos to be posted to my Flickr page, with discussion, on Monday

Cheers

Steven Mlodinow 

Longmont CO

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