[obol] Winter-time fun

[Dennis P. Vroman]

Jeff and Others that like Ruby-crowned Kinglet feet,

Jeff ask (hope he's OK with me sending a copy to OBOL) about the illustrations of "our" Kinglets (my assumption here) in Volume 11 of HBW.

 There's a couple of photos of Ruby-crowns and both should birds with dark-colored feet (according to the photo captions, both were taken of eastern birds).  However, the drawings of both the Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets do show birds with yellowish feet.  There's two photos of Golden-crowned birds, but the feet don't show in on and are in deep shadows in the other, so you can not tell about their feet.

So, it does appear that eastern Ruby-crowns do indeed have dark feet.  Just knew the western birds were special!

Dennis


  Dennis,

   

  I see this volume covers Regulidae - Do they have yellow feet in the illustrations?

   

  Jeff

   


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  From: obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis P. Vroman
  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:12 PM
  To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
  Subject: [obol] Winter-time fun

   

  Greeting me at our door when we got back from Grants Pass was Volume 11 of "Handbook of the Bird of the World."  If you have never seen any Volumes of this series that is supposed to cover all the World's birds, then you should attempt to find a copy to look at.

   

  Check web page:  http://www.hbw.com/

   

  What a great treat to review on those not so great winter days.

   

  ...also, only 5 more Volumes to go, Dennis (north of Grants Pass)
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