[obol] Re: Possible Bronzed Cowbird ?

  • From: Larry McQueen <larmcqueen@xxxxxxx>
  • To: jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:24:03 -0700

How about a Shiny Cowbird, first-year?  The bird seems to have a black head and 
underparts, brown upper.  The underpart plumage has worn off the brown tips of 
the subadult and retained the rest of this plumage.  It has a dark eye.

Larry


On May 30, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Jeff Gilligan wrote:

> I think so…...If it is it has to be a young male moulting to adult plumage.  
> If it is, I think it is the  aenus race rather than the form found in Arizona 
> with which I am more familiar.  Maybe we are both missing something, but I 
> have no idea what it could be otherwise.    Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Greg Gillson <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Possible Bronzed Cowbird at Benson Pond on 5/28?
>>  
>> http://www.pbase.com/gregbirder/image/150519360/original
>>  
>> Quick glimpse and pic while looking for waterthruh. Forgot about it until 
>> going through photos tonight.
>>  
>> Greg
>>  
>>  
> 

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