[va-richmond-general] Help with sparrow IDs
- From: Lisa Mease <kunsthure@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Jim Blowers <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Frank Fogarty <fogartyfa@xxxxxxxxx>, Arun Bose <arun1bose@xxxxxxxxx>, Richmond Birders <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 20:34:52 -0500
Thankfully it's not. [image: 😄] As unbelievable as it sounds, there are
none around me. But besides that, female HOSPs have longer, bulkier bills,
they lack the malar stripe, the head is flatter, their supercilium is buff
and not as crisply demarcated, and the brown eye line starts behind the
eye; the body shape/size is chunkier, the tail is shorter, and to me at
least, it isn't as deeply notched.
This was all a case of Rare-itis. It's a disease that can afflict any
birder. The main symptom is the visual hallucination which makes you
certain you're looking at a rare/hard to find bird when it's really a
dime-a-dozen species. I so wanted these to be Lincolns and American Trees
that I just couldn't see the obvious.
-Lisa
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Jim Blowers <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a little old, but isn’t that last one a female house sparrow?
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> Jim Blowers
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> *From:* va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Arun Bose
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2014 21:42
> *To:* kunsthure@xxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* Richmond Birders
> *Subject:* [va-richmond-general] Re: Help with sparrow IDs
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> Hi Lisa,
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> These are Song Sparrows, except the last, which is a Chipping Sparrow.
> Good pics.
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> Arun Bose
> Sent from my iCarrier Pigeon
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> On Oct 28, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Lisa Mease <kunsthure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hello, all,
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> I'd like some help IDing a couple of sparrows I saw at Glen Allen HS over
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> http://imgur.com/uQC9qmA
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> http://imgur.com/TWHV3Qi
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> http://imgur.com/rJ0wgEO
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> http://imgur.com/aBksykP
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> Thanks!
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> -Lisa
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> the hardest thing is rendering a moment moving too fast to endure. --
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> * http://twitter.com/RVaMedic
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