I'm very pleased that there are now 40 reports of the juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger from Boyd Lake in eBird. Reviewing images I see now that this bird is not a dark morph but rather a darker intermediate morph based on the extensive white spotting and barring on the underwing and undertail coverts. For example see images in this checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S148409085.
And a plug for submitting rare bird reports. Once I logged in to the Colorado Bird Records Committee website (accessed via Cobirds.org), I selected "Submit eBird Checklist". The process took about 5 minutes.
By the way the last Long-tailed Jaeger reported to eBird from Boyd Lake was an adult in mid-September 2014, found by Andy Bankert.
Nick Komar
Fort Collins
Big Year Blog—https://biggestyear2023.blogspot.com
On Aug 29, 2023, at 6:36 AM, Nicholas Komar <quetzal65@comcast.net> wrote:
A juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger just flew over Boyd Lake swim beach. Seems to be hanging around.
Nick Komar
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