It would have helped if the description of black wing tips was more detailed; i.e. whether included black secondaries or not, etc. A post breeding season wandering Wood Stork sounds interesting and logical.


Phil Hotlen; Bellingham, WA

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Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:31:37 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
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Wood Stork is white with black wingtips and about 20% smaller than greater Sandhill.

RCC

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From: Rolan Nelson <rnbuffle at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] FW: [LCBirds] Strange Crane
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu, vogelfreund at comcast.net
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 9:13 AM


Could it have been a White Ibis?

Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
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From: vogelfreund at comcast.net <vogelfreund at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] FW: [LCBirds] Strange Crane
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 9:08 PM



How about a pale subspecies of Common Crane from Siberia?? Those Sandhills may be Lessers from Siberia (i.e. NE Asia) also. Of course, if it was a "pure" white, then it would be something else. Hmmm...

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA\

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Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:22:52 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Tweeters] FW: [LCBirds] Strange Crane

Any comments or ideas?

Bill and Nancy LaFramboise
Richland WA

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Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:45 PM
To: LCBirds at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LCBirds] Strange Crane

Just before noon thirty as we were walking our dogs in the hills north of
Benton City we heard and spotted a group of sandhill cranes flying south.
In the middle of the group was one white crane with black wing tips. ?Of
course our initial thought was Whooper!!, but this bird had about a 15 - 20%
shorter wingspan than the sandhills.

Joel


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