Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:43:13 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Howard Youth Subject: Re: Ocean City and Pts. North; Feb. 23 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Rob, Thanks. I did find it in the old Master guide. The book said the white band was a rare occurrence, but that's only appropriate, I guess, since the bird's making a rare appearance! Howard Youth hmyouth@erols.com Rockville, MD At 09:31 AM 02/25/2000 -0500, you wrote: >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 >======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================