This is more difficult than it might seem. Although we can probably exclude an adult male, distinguishing the other three age/sex combos in the field is very difficult.
This puts us around the same place we found ourselves back in 2001, when Angus and others of us staked out the then state of the art in Long Island wheatear analysis: http://www.oceanwanderers.com/NYWhtear.html Another (also possibly unanswerable) question is whether this bird is a Greenland Wheatear, from eastern Arctic Canada, or possibly an Alaskan Wheatear, beating along the trail from Beringia to Plumb Beach, as though it were a Yellow Wagtail! <http://www.oceanwanderers.com/NYWhtear.html>Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Elliotte Rusty Harold [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 6:55 AM To: Arie Gilbert Cc: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell edu Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] N. Wheater YES Could more details be given about the birs itself? E.g is it male or female? ________________________________ Celebrate Italian Heritage with a Special Broadway Benefit Concert by the World’s Longest Running Phantom in support of the CSI Italian Studies program><http://csitoday.com/events/franc-dambrosios-broadway-the-phantom-unmasked/> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
