Re: Western Tanager at Riverbend, VA

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Kurt, 

To the best of my recollection here at work, Scarlet Tanagers sometimes
show thin white wingbars in the autumn.  I believe that Western Tanagers
have _thick_ wingbars.....

I hope that someone with access to reference material can fill in more
details.  

Best, 

Rob Hilton
robert@csa.com
Bethesda, Md. 

At 09:06 PM 10/7/98 EDT, KurtCapt87@aol.com wrote:
>In my rush to post the Western Tanager sighting, a few errors crept in.
>
>The birds breast was completely unstreaked, the yellow extended down the
chest
>and to the mid-belly (as I did not view it further down, I do not know if the
>yellow extended to the vent).  The yellow was uniform in appearance bill to
>mid belly and wing pit to wing pit.  The wings were grayish not black.
>
>

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