[obol] Birding Dowitchers

[Tom Herzig]

Chuck,

I, too, had problems with this article. In fact, I reached a point where 
I put it down because it was not making sense.

Tom Herzig
N Bonneville, WA

Charles R. Gates wrote:

>I'm interested to hear comments about the article on Dowitcher ID in the
>newest edition of Birding Magazine.  The authors offer up several
>morphological cues that can be used to ID Dowitchers without hearing them.
>I'm just wondering if anyone has used the methods mentioned and what results
>were achieved.  I need to re-read and study before being fully confident of
>the content of the article (I'm a little slow) but I used forehead shape on
>a pair of Dowitchers yesterday just to convince myself that they were
>Long-billed.  I thought one of the most important things I got out of the
>article is that photos are not necessarily the end all for bird ID.  I
>thought the photos in the article sometimes contradicted the text.  Anyone
>else see this?
>
>Chuck Gates
>Powell Butte
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