Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:17:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Western Kingbird at Fort McHenry In-Reply-To: <003701c34e02$40a2ad50$a87021a2@DOWNSTAIRS> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit It could also be that the genetics of the two species is such that the dark back and white undersides are dominant. I guess a DNA test might be able to help out here, but not sure if all parties involved want to hang around for us to take samples Gail Mackiernan on 07/19/2003 10:30 AM, Les Roslund at lroslund@BLUECRAB.ORG wrote: > The recently posted pictures of the two young kingbirds sure show them > looking a lot like mom. Does this mean that Mr Western was filling > the role of foster father - and that his gene pool is not involved > with these youngsters? If so, it seems mighty nice of him to show up > and help with the feeding and defending - but since he was far out of > normal Western territory and had no family of his own, he apparently > had time to help out with the family of someone else. > I suspect there is no evidence to suggest that Mr Western drove off the > father of these chicks in order to have the joy of helping to raise the > family. > > Les Roslund > Lroslund@bluecrab.org > Talbot County > Easton MD 21601 > > ====================================================================== > = > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================