Re: Black-throated Blue females ?
tern (tern@visuallink.com)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:55:22 -0400
Peter Pyle's book "indentification guide to North American Birds"
states "AGE/SEX- Juv (Jun-Aug) is like HY/SY ,but the plumage is heavily
washed with brownish; juv female =male, although the distinctive
sex-specific plumage of male is often visible before fledging.. Basically if
I understand the jargon correctly he is saying that in many cases the male
is distinguishable before fledging but not always in which case males are
heavily washed brownish. I quoted the book excactly because I don't totally
trust my interpretation.
William Leigh
-----Original Message-----
From: Darius Ecker <dariuse@abs.net>
To: 'MDOsprey Mailing List' <MDOsprey@ARI.Net>
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 5:10 PM
Subject: Black-throated Blue females ?
>I've noticed this year what I thought were female Black-throated Blue
Warblers with a white edge along the lower front edge of the wing. Birds
that are brownish olive in color with a white primary patch. This morning I
saw 6 BTB females, and two of them had this white edge. Since the adult
male has this white edge, I'm wondering if the birds I'm seeing with this
white edge on the wing are in fact the young males. I looked in "Warblers of
the Americas" by Curson, Quinn and Beadle and their depiction of a first
year male doesn't show it.
>
>Does anyone know the answer to this ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Good Birding,
>
>Darius Ecker (dariuse@abs.net)
>
>Columbia, Maryland