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Posted by Bill Boeringer on 17:35:56 10/16/06
In Reply to: Re: American Redstart hybrid? or aberrant plumage? posted by Jeff Weber
Thanks Jeff, but that wasn't it. There was no yellow on breast at all, tail was long, and it didn't act like a Connecticut--no walking, not particularly skulky, in a tree the whole time. It did have that prominent an eye ring, though, just to give you an idea of how striking it was. I've seen a half dozen Connecticuts or so, and the body type was just wrong. I also looked at some photos of HY Connecticut (unknown sex)at a banding station Robin Diaz sent me.
My initial visual feeling on seeing the head was Nashville. That changed a nanosecond later to Redstart when I saw body. From there, it finally got to "this is some sort of Redstart hybrid".
Now, are there Redstart X Connecticut hybrids? That might have more possibility, but I don't see any references to that....
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