[tn-bird] Re: Swallow-tailed Kite

Jeff Wilson correctly queried about the "smudgy eye-stripe" I reported on the 
Swallow-tailed Kite (Tennessee River, Route 30, near Dayton) on August 11.  
Sorry, been in Mexico for the past 17 days.    

The head was almost pure white but there was a smudgy area extending along a 
line from the bill to just behind the eye.  Stripe is an exaggeration, I think. 
 

The discoloration was somewhere between the Kaufman illustation (page 115) and 
the photo at this link:    
http://www.charleston.net/org/sccbp/kite_survey.html

However, it nearly noon and perhaps the shape of the bird's head caused a 
shadow or accentuated the discoloration (Or he'd been feasting on something and 
mussed his face).



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