Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:11:08 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: Ocean City and Pts. North; Feb. 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 02/23/2000 5:09:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, hmyouth@EROLS.COM writes: << Unlike pictures in most of my books, the black tip and rest of the bill are separated by a whitish band >> Howard, I was just looking through one of my books on this species over the weekend. I think I remember reading that some females exhibit the feature you mentioned, the whitish separating the nail from the rest of the bill. Look in the [old] Master guide, if you have it. I think that is where I read this. If not then it was in the waterfowl guide by Madge and Burn. Rick Sussman warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================