Hello All,
I am amazed at what I am looking at in this photo. This bird is not your run of the mill bushtit. I do not believe it to be a bushtit as we know the species today. It has some Siberian Jay looks to it and yet that tail is out of reach when looking at the measurements for that species. I do not believe it to be a Brown-headed Cowbird unless the species can morph into a near likeness of its host. So are we looking at a as of yet Unknown North American species? A member of a remnant population that has lived under our noses undiscovered until now ? If it is a "super sized" bushtit and God knows just about everything and everyone is that today. Then where did these genes arise from? Great discovery! So I am still baffled and will simply call it the Seattle Greater Bushtit.
Later Mike

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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
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