Re: Western Tanager at Riverbend, VA
Darius Ecker (dariuse@abs.net)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:17:37 -0400
The National Geographic Field Guide states .....
Scarlet Tanager .....
"Some immatures show faint wing bars, compared with the bold white wing bars
of Western Tanager"
Wester Tanager ....
"conspicuous wing bars: upper bar yellow, lower bar pale yellow or whitish"
"grayish back contrasting with greenish-yellow nape and rump"
Stokes "Field Guide to Birds - Western Region" has photos of both a
greenish-morph and a grayish morph female. The yellow upper wing bar shows
through on the greenish-morph, but the upper bar just looks white to me on
the grayish morph bird.
I couldn't find a drawing or a photo of a Scarlet Tanager with faint wing
bars.
Hope this helps.
Good Birding,
Darius Ecker (dariuse@abs.net)
Columbia, Maryland USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Hilton <robert@csa.com>
To: mdosprey@ARI.Net <mdosprey@ARI.Net>
Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Western Tanager at Riverbend, VA
>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.
>>
>>
>