[texbirds] Re: So, do some Egrets stain their feathers? - Example of 'painted' Great Egret
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:25:37 -0500
People with paint ball guns sometimes like to paint birds...It fades washes
out with time...Some think this is innocent fun but a paint ball can
actually kill or maim a bird if close to the shooter...This looks a
possible example...I have seen florescent colored Laughing Gulls... the
color is water based and will wash/fade out.
B
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, <MBB22222@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> **
>
> Hi all,****
>
> Discussion about color source of Cattle Egret buff colored plumes in
> breeding plumage is nothing new. I personally caught the bug and I am
> trying to collect the evidence for a quite few years now. Although I have
> little doubts left, if any, that indeed the Cattle Egrets are ‘painting’
> themselves there are still a quite few more questions left not clearly
> answered and I want to collect more data before being convinced that I
> can speculate about the process of staining. During my ‘hunt’ I also
> collected images of other egrets (also other birds) that can stain (more or
> less, usually less) their plumages in similar way. Perhaps the most
> dramatic example is one Great Egret (have some more Great Egret examples
> but none even close to this one). My question is – anybody else has ever
> seen Great Egret stained in similar way?****
>
> http://www.pbase.com/image/145394517****
>
> All the best,****
>
> Mark B Bartosik****
>
> Houston, Texas****
>
> http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field****
>
> ****
>
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Brush Freeman
Independent and affiliated Field Biologist
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http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
The greatest musician of all time is mother nature.
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