Subject: [Tweeters] Green headed Barrow's Goldeneye
Date: Feb 3 19:59:32 2006
From: Jeff Kozma - jkozma at charter.net


Your bird sounds like it was most likely a Common x Barrows hybrid, as head
color does not vary in species, unless of course do to some kind of pigment
difficiency like albinism. Colors do not spontaneously change in the regard
of green and purple, thus, I would conclude a hybrid?

Jeff Kozma
Yakima


----- Original Message -----
From: "mike denny" <m.denny at charter.net>
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; "Inland NW Birders"
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:20 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Green headed Barrow's Goldeneye


> Hello All,
> One additional note, this morning while searching for the Long-tailed
Ducks
> we observed an adult male Barrow's Goldeneye with a vivid green head. I
have
> seen thousands of Barrow's over the years and have never seen a green
headed
> model. Rodger Shoemake was able to get a great photo of this bird in with
a
> flock of "normal" Barrow's Goldeneyes. Has anyone out there ever seen or
> heard of a green headed individual? Thank-you.
> Later Mike
>
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