[texbirds] Re: Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
- From: Petra Hockey <phockey@xxxxxxxx>
- To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 08:26:23 -0500
Wishful thinking is a potent inducement when it comes to bird identification
and I am sure just about all of us (me included) have fallen victim to it. You
would have to tune out the 3 times bigger body mass of a Yellow Rail and the
half again as big size to make a Sharp-tailed Sparrow into a Yellow Rail
but I am sure it can be done.
Petra Hockey
Port O'Connor, Calhoun Co.
> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
> Date: Sat Sep 6 2014 21:05 pm
> From: Clay.Taylor AT swarovskioptik.us
> All -
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> Back in the 1980s, there was a Sharp-tailed Sparrow at Brigantine NWR in NJ
> that was partially albino and had white secondaries. It frequented one of
> the corners on the Wildlife Drive and frequently would fly from the roadside
> vegetation, over the tidal channel, and dive into the grasses on the far
> side. It is impossible to know how many birders ticked that bird off as
> their Lifer Yellow Rail, but it is likely hundreds of people did.
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> Clay Taylor
> - See more at:
> http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesidv3408&MLID=TX&MLNM=Texas#sthash.H0ZfugEi.dpuf
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