Subject: Re: Strange Crow
Date: Nov 26 21:03:57 1997
From: Kelly Cassidy - kelly at salmo.cqs.washington.edu



I saw a crow matching that description in Magnuson Park a couple of weeks
ago. I didn't get a long look at him (her; it) but it looked like
part of the secondaries were white, and others were dark. The
crow was not a glossy black; more of a dull brown/black.

Magnuson is a couple of miles across the lake (as the crow flies, of
course; longer if it takes 520). Either an epidemic of two-toned crows
or the same bird?

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Stan Ray wrote:

> Yesterday evening, I briefly saw what I decided was a gleam of light
> reflected off of a crow's underwings. Then today I saw the crow in full
> daylight. He definitely has pure white secondary feathers in both wings!
> This observation is probably not unheard of, but it sure is new to me.
> Anybody seen the likes. (Crow observed near my home here near Rose Hill in
> Kirkland, WA.
> Stan
>
>
>

Kelly Cassidy -- Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Box 357980, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195
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