Subject: White morph species
Date: Dec 4 16:32:35 2000
From: MBlanchrd at aol.com - MBlanchrd at aol.com


Hi, Tweeters,

Has anyone done a statistical (nooooooo! please! not statistics!) analysis of
the number of different bird species seen here in Puget Sound showing white
variations?
Until I moved here in 87, I'd never seen a white morph of anything. Since
then, I have seen at least a dozen species with white variations. This "White
Capped Chickadee" is a new one, but not unexpected...
What could cause (at least from my single perspective) the higher number of
white morphs here than anywhere else I've birded? Not to boast, but I've
birded in virtually every State and about a dozen countries on three
continents.) Is it because I've stayed in this one area longer than just
about anywhere else, or am I birding better, or what?? Are their that many
more white morphs here, or more in general, or is some madman running about
painting birds white?
Michelle
MBlanchrd at aol.com
Oly, Wa