Subject: [Tweeters] ID of unusually white heron
Date: Dec 29 22:47:31 2012
From: notcalm at comcast.net - notcalm at comcast.net



Charlene,


Did you see it move? I do not see an eye, the bill is much too thick for a Great Blue and it looks artificial, but it may be the photo. Do you have additional photos?
Best guess: Artificial replica of an Intermediate Morph (W?rdemann's) GB with serious need for beak reconstruction. If plastic, needs plastic surgery.


Dan Reiff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlene Burge" <birdlvr at earthlink.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:54:56 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] ID of unusually white heron


We observed a heron with unusual plumage at Dungeness, near Sequim, in the wetlands due west of the old Three Crabs Restaurant. Our Florida birding friends think it?s a Wurdmann?s, and we think it could be leucistic GBH, Wurdmann?s, or possibly a real unusual prospect (Eurasian, South American species?). I?m waiting to hear from my South American birding friends. I?ve never seen a normal GBH with such extreme plumage coloration (mostly white head, neck, stomach).


A link to a photo on Flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stormygirl/8317189258/in/photostream
If the link creates any trouble, use www.flickr.com/photos/stormygirl and look for the white-neck heron.

Thanks!

Charlene Burge
Olympic Peninsula and Imperial Valley

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