Raymond Korpi wrote:
>
> Immature TREE SWALLOWS can and often do show a partial brown band around
> the breast and are brown in plumage, a brown much closer to Bank Swallow
> color than Rough-winged. At Sturgeon Lake on Sauvie Island, a Bank
> Swallow or two are often found in migration, but the Bank Swallow
> look-alikes tend to predominate.
> RK
>
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> Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA I cannot hobble change,
> rkorpi at csci.clark.edu Not now or ever."
> President, Oregon Field -William Kloefkorn
> Ornithologists _Alvin_Turner_as_Farmer_, #16
> **Inquiries on Oregon birds
> always welcome**
>
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.......Thanks alot for the info. Received replies from several
birders---all stating the same thing. Will add this pertinant info. to
my gradually increasing repetroire of importand 'bird knowledge'.
.......Again, thanks to one and all.

gerald at e-z.net