[texbirds] Re: green backed ad male rufous or allen's
- From: "Arlie Cooksey" <cooksey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <acridotheres.tristis@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:00:51 -0500
Mike,
It certainly appears that your bird is in the "safe zone" outside
the controversial green-backed Allen's/Rufous male controversy.
But maybe someone else has a different idea. It sure looks like
your bird is a Rufous with some green in the back. They are not
all that rare. Also, the rufous coloring in the back is very bright,
not brownish-rufous you will see in most of the Allen's photos
on the Internet.
Here is a link to a simple study of birds with partially green backs..
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/humm/HUMMREPORT.html
This is from Oregon, so not sure how relative this might be
to Texas birds, but it appears that Rufous with 20-40% green in
the back is not all that unusual. However... Pyle writes that Allen's
adult males can have up to 40% rufous. I guess that's why we
call it a work-in-progress.
The controversy at hand, of course, involves the question of abundance
of completely or almost-completely green-backed Rufous adult males.
And Matt has certainly offered some insightful thoughts on that topic.
Mel Cooksey
Corpus Christi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Stewart" <acridotheres.tristis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:48 PM
Subject: [texbirds] Re: green backed ad male rufous or allen's
> April 13th & 14th of this year I had what I think is a green-backed Rufous
> Hummingbird in my yard in Copperas Cove. I did put the sighting in eBird
> and after about a month e-mailed Cornell directly to get the sighting
> finally accepted. I included one photo of the bird, here are links to
> three
> different pictures of it if anyone is interested.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/97288405@N03/9599605761/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/97288405@N03/9599605695/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/97288405@N03/9599605559/
>
>
> Mike Stewart
> Ft. Hood
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