[obol] Re: From Many, One: How Many Species of Redpolls Are There?

  • From: Bob Archer <rabican1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: OBOLINKS <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:43:21 -0700


Why do we get stuck with "Sooty" all the time? Sounds like we are in Gary ,
Indiana, not that there is anything wrong with Gary.

Why not Spruce Flycatcher or Larch Flycatcher, anything that does not sound
like car exhaust.

Bob Archer



On Apr 1, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Tom Crabtree <tc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


More bad news – it appears the suspicions about the premature split of
“Western” Flycatcher were correct and that there is now data confirming that
Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers are a single species. Arch
McCallum helped contribute to this discovery. The good news, though, is that
in performing DNA analysis of the North American empids, they have discovered
that Dusky Flycatcher is actually three species – the Dusky Flycatcher of the
Rocky Mountains, the Sooty Flycatcher of the Cascades/Sierras and the Pallid
Flycatcher of the southwestern mountains.
www.aba.org/how-many-species-of-empid-are-there.html Can’t wait to find a
Pallid Fly at Malheur this spring.

Tom Crabtree, Bend

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