Couple of new birds this morning:
Blue Jay which is a rare winter visitor in the yard. Last year I went the entire winter without one and this is the first in the yard since Oct/Nov.
The second was a single redpoll that "scored" nicely on the Hoary scale. I did a little Crossley action on him....
Below is the Sibley chart of repolls (based on Declan Troy's phonetic analysis of redpolls published in the Auk (1985)) I found a couple of week's ago while looking over last year's blog effort. It was referenced by J.D. to accompany an interested hoary-like redpoll in his yard last April. Great write-up on the bird BTW
http://euclid.nmu.edu/~jophilli/hoary-redpoll2.htm
How do you think it scores??! Chris scored it a 15 (6,4,5) and I scored it 1 for the yard list!
Wow... I still need that bugger for WI!
ReplyDeleteNice! Looks pretty Hoary to me. I haven't seen one yet this year. . .
ReplyDeleteThat is clearly a COREXHORE backcross.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a classic weakly amelanistic CORE with mandibular dwarfism. And someone plucked out the heavily streaked undertail coverts.
ReplyDeleteIsn't a weakly amelanistic CORE with mandibular dwarfism just a simpler way of say Hoary Redpoll?
ReplyDeleteI typed Corexhore into google and now I'm in trouble with the wife.