There did not seem to be any serious feather wear, though I suppose that is
hard to discern until it is suddenly obvious. Does the large and obvious
gonydeal angle tell us anything useful?
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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On Jan 15, 2019, at 8:37 PM, philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:POST: Send your post to obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
There could be some influence form Glaucous here,
but at the same time I'm not sure there's anything
necessarily outside the range of an (early) bleached
Glaucous-winged. For a more secure hybrid candidate
it would be nice to see something like a straighter bill,
much more significant paling of the bill base (the
minimal amount here may be within range for G-w
on this date), whitish rather than pale brownish eye
arcs, or remnants of internal patterning in the tertials.
Phil
