[NatureNS] Photos of redpolls

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:14:59 -0400
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All photographers and feeder watchers:

There is obviously a great winter show of redpolls and it would be nice to have
diagnostic photos for "NS Birds" of the four kinds (two Common and two Hoary
subspecies) that have been claimed. Great portraits of individual birds are be
fine to dsicriminate between the two species, but to pin down the subspecies,
group shots are better. Blake Matbank has earlier mailed sources of information
on these matters.

The larger, browner Common Redpoll subspecies _rostrata_ (breeding in Nunavut,
w. Greenland) and the more regular, widespread _flammea_ could be thus
distinguished if side-by side.  Ditto for the larger, frostier Hoary subspecies
_honemanni_ (breeding in n. Nunavut, nw Greenland) compared with the "southern"
_exilipes_, if posed side by side with the usual _flammea_ Common.

I hope we may see some diagnostic shots.

Best, Ian McLaren (as photo editor, "NS Birds")

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