[obol] Buntings at Basket Slough

[DAVID IRONS]

Greetings All,

Lars offers to good points as to why this is not a hybrid.  If you look at 
Sibley's illustration of a 1st year male Indigo it is virtually identical to 
the Baskett Slough bird.

Dave Irons


>From: Norgren Family <gnorgren at earthlink.net>
>To: Kit Larsen <kit at uoregon.edu>
>CC: obol <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>Subject: Re: [obol] Buntings at Basket Slough
>Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:27:25 -0700
>
>The bird appears to be a first year
>male-hence the light feathers on the
>belly. The upper parts are all dark,
>there is no trace of wing bars, not
>much evidence of being a hybrid. Lars Norgren
>On Jul 1, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Kit Larsen wrote:
>
> >
> > George Grier, Cynthia Pappas, and I visited Basket Slough this
> > morning to search for the INDIGO BUNTING that has been reported
> > recently. We did find the bird, near the "cherry tree snag" as
> > reported before. It was in the presence of a male LAZULI BUNTING and
> > a female bunting. Based on the behavior we observed, we suggest that
> > the Indigo and the female are paired. The Indigo acted aggressively
> > towards the Lazuli, driving it off seveal times and chirping as if to
> > protect its territory. On a few occasions, the Indigo and the female
> > bunting both flew down to the same location in the blackberries,
> > where they remained hidden for a few minutes. Once it appeared that
> > the female was carrying food down to the blackberries.
> >
> > I got a few photos of the Indigo and of the female. I wonder that the
> > Indigo might be a hybrid (with Lazuli), based on the light (almost
> > white) underparts. I would appreciate others' opinions on this.
> >
> > http://uoregon.edu/~klars/indbunting1.jpg
> > http://uoregon.edu/~klars/indbunting2.jpg
> >
> > Kit Larsen
> > Eugene
> >
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