Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:31:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: Ocean City and Pts. North; Feb. 23 In-Reply-To: <43.1525ece.25e5d11c@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:11 PM 2/23/00 EST, Rick Sussman wrote: >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. The new Collins guide says/shows the same thing. Rob Hilton ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================