Subject: Re: Naselle Brambling
Date: Dec 21 09:53:44 1995
From: "M. Smith" - whimbrel at u.washington.edu



He-he-he-he. Could I suggest that somebody catch and band it, doing a
sex/age in the hand? (Sorry, I couldn't resist!).

CATCH THAT SUCKER!

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 PAGODROMA at aol.com wrote:
> Why is that Brambling in Naselle constantly being referred to as a male? Am
> I missing something? Did I see a different bird? The bird looks exactly
> (well, almost exactly) like the very last image on page 442-43 of the
> National Geographic N.A. Bird Guide, my only source available to me for that
> species. It has a plain buff / gray face and very distinctive black
> bordering a broad gray median nape stripes. Are the field guides in error?
> Or is it me? If it's me, I can take the instructive correction.


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Michael R. Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html