MD Osprey:

Those that follow extralimitals may already know that Paul Lehman of 
NJ recently found Arizona's first Couch's Kingbird and, naturally, as 
here in Maryland, separation of Couch's and Tropical was an issue. A 
couple of messages of interest from Azbirds are below; one provides 
links to images and recordings. Note the comment regarding the Pyle 
(1997) errata. All of the corrections to the Tropical/Couch's 
Kingbird accounts follow:

Page    Correction
253             The $ and # symbols in Figure 166 should be reversed.
253-254 The information in Figures 167 and 168 and Table 5 applies to 
AHY/ASY's only. More study is needed to
verify this information for HY/SY birds.
254             In Table 5, the wing length for Couch's Kingbird 
should be "115-131".




>Date:    Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:33:55 -0800
>From:    Kurt Radamaker <>
>Subject: AZFO - Photos, Sound file and Sonogram of Couch's Kingbird 
>added to website
>
>
>Field Ornithologists,
>
>   It looks like the Couch's Kingbird has been documented superbly. 
> We have added a sound file and sonogram along with the photos. The 
> photo of the spreadwing appears to show the classic primary 10 
> shorter than primary 5 see Pyle 1997. The sonogram is diagnostic 
> and the sound file a clincher.
>
>   http://azfo.org/gallery/photos.html
>
>   Thanks to Paul Lehman or finding and alerting us to this apparent 
> first state record, Pierre for recording it, and the many others 
> who helped locate and photograph it this morning.
>
>   Best
>   Kurt Radamaker
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>
>Date:    Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:44:13 -0800
>From:    Kurt Radamaker <>
>Subject: Re: AZFO - Photos, Sound file and Sonogram of Couch's 
>Kingbird added to website
>
>
>Forgot to mention that Mark Stevenson did some detective work after 
>we noticed the primary spacing on my spreadwing photo appeared to 
>favor Tropical. Mark found that the Identification Guide to North 
>American Birds (Pyle 1997) has a typo. The primary spacing on the 
>Tropical/Couch's Diagram is reversed.
>
>   page 253 figure166 the "greater than or equal to" and "less than 
> or equal to" symbols were reversed.
>
>   If you own Pyle you might want to correct the page.
>
>   http://www.birdpop.org/DownloadDocuments/manual/ERRATA62905.pdf 
> [this is the correct link. PCD]
>
>   Good work Mark



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