[obol] Indigo Bunting at Baskett Slough

[Owen Schmidt]

......... Sibley also illustrates a male hybrid Indigo X Lazuli  
Bunting  on page 470, which because of the wingbars and color is  
quite unlike the "adult male nonbreeding" Indigo he illustrates on  
page 468.

Believe it or not there is a Wikipedia entry for Indigo Bunting: "In  
the western part of their range, they often hybridize with the Lazuli  
Bunting.":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Bunting

Check this site for online photos of a hybrid:
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/Bunting-hybrid.html

See this site for a report of a similar hybrid on the Saskatchewan  
bird list, May 31, 2007:
http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/SASK.html

oschmidt at att.net
Sunday, July 1, 2007






On Jul 1, 2007, at 5:56 PM, DAVID IRONS wrote:

> 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





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