Well, on *last year's* SAS Sage Grouse trip (also led by the intrepid
Russell) people in our car saw an immature Golden Eagle (dorsal base
of tail white) perched on a telephone pole on the Selah army base. Its
nape was unmistakably golden in good light.

David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu

On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Laura Saavedra wrote:

> While spying the resplendant Golden Eagle described by Russell Rogers, we
> felt confident that only adults obtain the golden nape plumage. However,
> after returning home, sleeping for the required twelve hours after a Sage
> Lek trip, I looked up in Clark & Wheeler to see that Goldens have light
> nape feathers "in all plumages". Is this true? What do y'all in
> tweeterland think?
>
>
> David Buckley----------------------------------------------------------------
> lsdb at u.washington.edu
> West Seattle, USA
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