It's pretty simple: the most birds seen or heard from one's yard during 2012 will be the winner. Not of money, fame, fortune, or anything of value to any normal human being. Just eternal yardbirding legend. This year's contest is a stripped-down, souped-up, no holds barred version of 2011, with only the foolhardy remaining.

2012 promises to be the greenest, meanest, most carbon-free, birding competition EVER (not counting the fuel to harvest, sterilize, and transport thistle seed from Ethiopia or sunflower seed from N. Dakota).

Saturday, January 21, 2012

New Taxa of Redpoll documented in Escanaba





I photographed this cute little fella at the feeder yesterday, at first I thought it was a pale redpoll from Nunavut but with further study it appears to be a new taxa of redpoll, I believe endemic to the central U.P.

With the overall frosty cool look, discreet black mask, tidy red-poll, and limited streaking on a white rump, I believe it to be most closely related to HORE.

Thoughts?





Posted by at 7:09 AM

2 comments:

  1. That had HORE all over it from the first glance. I believe it is C. h. marquettii

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  2. I'm so speechless, I'm gonna hafta take a moment.

    Damn I love my trasmogfier!

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