Subject: Re: Birding Magazine Photo Quiz
Date: Feb 13 12:13:49 1996
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu
I guessed Clay-colored. Maybe I was right?
Gene Hunn.
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Maureen Ellis wrote:
> Immature chipping sparrows and some wintering adults can have lighter
> colored bills. Immature chippies can be especially challenging.
> One of the many, many facts learned in my recent attendance to a
> wintering sparrows workshop in SE Arizona. I also noticed that the 1983
> edition of the Golden bird guide (keep in my UW office desk as a backup)
> mentions the seasonal light bill, and maybe some of the other guides plus
> Bent's Life Histories may also. Will check this out; I don't get
> Birding, but a quiz slide of a young chippie stumped a lot of us at the
> AZ workshop. Then again, it is also possible that the Birding quiz ID may
> really be in error!!! I hope someone else will answer this.
>
> Maureen E. Ellis, me2 at u.washington.edu
> ***********************************************************************
> On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, MR HUGH A JENNINGS wrote:
>
> > The Dec. issue of Birding, published by the ABA, included a photo of a
> > sparrow. The Feb. issue provided the answers to the Dec. quiz. The answer
> > includes a detailed study of all the bird's features and why each leads to
> > the final answer. In the case of this sparrow, a very distinctive feature
> > was a very light yellow bill. However, the study did not mention this
> > feature. The answer was that it was a Chipping Sparrow.
> >
> (snip)
> >
> > Hugh Jennings
> > Bellevue, WA
> > gfjc96a at prodigy.com
> >
> >
>