Subject: Weird Thrush, Kitsilano; May 20 1999
Date: May 20 20:29:06 1999
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

This is primarily a heads-up for interested Vancouver BC birders.

On my usual 5.30 AM traipse to the busstop this morning, I turned the corner
from the 3600-block of West 1st Ave south onto Dunbar when a large-ish
thrush flew across the road in front of me and bombed between two houses on
the W side of Dunbar, between W 1st & W 2nd, and N of the alley.

Didn't get a good look but just enough to see dark-and-white regular
patterning on the wings and a suggestion of symmetrical dark-and-pale
pattern on the underparts. Because of that, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a pied
semi-albino American Robin Turdus migratorius. The size and jizz also seemed
not to fit a robin, either, it seeming a titch bigger (but that could have
been an effect of crepuscular light) and shorter-tailed, but whatever it was
it was sure a Turdus-type thrush. Since I've gotta catch a bus whose regular
driver adheres ruthlessly to her schedule, I had no time to search.

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net