Forgive me if somebody already pointed this out- I didn't make it all the way
through the voluminous discussion :)
Coming at this from the other direction- why isn't this an Am. robin? (vs. why
isn't this an eye-browed thrush?): the one thing on that bird (its eyebrow)
that suggests ebth is apparently a pretty common variant of American robin
plumage. A photograph of a robin that's the spitting image of Mike's bird was
submitted from an Alaska banding station in the late 1990's as a probable ebth-
the somewhat curmudgeonly fellow (who shall remain nameless) at the U. of AK
museum who reviewed the photo told the submitter that the eyebrow was a
not-particularly-rare variant of Am. robin, at least in AK (he was working from
the collections), and why in god's name didn't you collect the bird if you
thought it was an eye-browed thrush?!?!
That last part is always a fun conversation to have with museum folks :)
Randy
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