Plural?

Hal Michael

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> On 07/25/2020 8:15 PM Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser <whitney.n.k at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi, Tweets. I recently noticed that David Sibley uses double male and double female symbols in his guide book, and I don't know what those mean. I looked high and low for a legend, to no avail. Can anyone help?

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> If you have a Sibley guidebook or app sitting next to you, a double male symbol shows up in the House Finch entry in the note that "some 1st year [double male symbol] identical" to adult female. And the double male and double female symbols both appear in his Pine Grosbeak entry with the note that "some [double female symbol] and 1st year [double male symbol] have russet plumage."

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> An example of the double male symbol is also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_woodpecker#/media/File:111_Pileated_Woodpecker,_b.jpg

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> Thanks!

> Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser

> Seattle, WA

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