Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Re: [cobirds] Odd kingfisher at Fort Morgan, and DFO Big Year update - #350

Juveniles have rusty feathers in their breast bands. The Birds of North America account for Belted Kingfisher contains this description for juveniles:

Compared to adults, juveniles (birds in Juvenile plumage) have a darker crest, more white in the wing coverts, larger white tips on secondaries, and white spots on the central pair of rectrices (like adult females), and more cinnamon or brown color in their slaty breast band (Ridgway 1914b).

(As an aside, the BNA account's first author is Jeff Kelly, whose PhD work on Belted Kingfishers was done here at CSU.)


Both the Crossley Guide and the Stokes Field Guide also note this feature for juveniles.

Dave Steingraeber
Fort Collins


From: cobirds@googlegroups.com <cobirds@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Todd Deininger <goldeneagle90a@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:53:22 PM
To: David Suddjian
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Odd kingfisher at Fort Morgan, and DFO Big Year update - #350
 
Juvenile, check out this pic

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:39 PM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:
We did not notice anything about unusual size at the time. The calls sounded typical for Belted.

David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton, CO

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:34 PM Joey Angstman <jangstma27@gmail.com> wrote:
Hybrid?

Joey Angstman
Greeley CO

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