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Re: Pigmy Nuthatch II
- To: <Psbmt@aol.com>, <tkrakauer@mindspring.com>, <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Pigmy Nuthatch II
- From: Helmut Mueller <hmuelle@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:37:06 -0400
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I quote the following from Withgott & Smith 1998, Brown-headed Nuthatch. The
Birds of North America No. 349 A. Poole & F. Gill, eds. :
Juvenal plumage. ...very similar to adult..Top of head more grayish than in
adults or replaced by gray...
This is a 24 pp. publication on the BHN..other species are covered at
similar length. The cost of the series is prohibitive..I got it at half
price because I authored one of the accounts &, if I recall correctly, I
paid over $1000. But you might encourage your library to get a copy.
Information may be obtained from:
Birds of North America
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia PA 19103-1195
-- Helmut C. Mueller Ph.D
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Biology & Curriculum in Ecology
University of North Carolina
Coker Hall CB# 3280
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
Phone: 919-942-4937
Permanent email address: hmueller@email.unc.edu
> From: Psbmt@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:59:15 EDT
> To: tkrakauer@mindspring.com, carolinabirds@duke.edu
> Subject: Re: Pigmy Nuthatch II
>
>
> In a message dated 7/9/02 9:18:45 PM, tkrakauer@mindspring.com writes:
> << This spring we noticed that the feathers on the head kept getting
> lighter and lighter until today the top of the head is more light tan than
> brown.>>
>
> <<From what I have observed this year what we are seeing is not a regional
> subspecies, or a juvenile plumage. >>
>
> Tom and All,
> I guess the one odd thing I noticed after my initial post a few weeks
> ago, when I first noticed the individual with the grayer crown color at my
> feeders, was that numerous people wrote to me saying the same thing. I
> thought at the time it seemed a little strange that quite a few others were
> noticing this grayer crown color for the first time, too, after all having
> seen lots of Brown-headed Nuthatches prior to this summer. Had we all just
> never seen a juvenile before?
> So maybe Tom has hit the nail on the head?? Except I still would decribe
> the crown color as grayish, not light tan :-) Looked like the crown color of
> Sibley's Pigmy Nuthatch, is that the color you're seeing on the birds in your
> yard, Tom?
>
> Shelley
>
> Shelley Theye
> N. Chatham County, NC (south of Chapel Hill)
> Psbmt@aol.com