Strange bird in Montrose, Colorado

[Ken Kinman]

Jim,
     Looks like a chickadee (genus Parus).  Perhaps a black-capped chickadee
with some uncommon coloration pattern.  It almost looks like it could be a
hybrid between P. atricapillus with P. hudsonicus (or even P. rufescens).
        ----- My two cents worth,
                       Ken
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>From: "James L. Reveal" <jr19 at UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
>Reply-To: "James L. Reveal" <jr19 at UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: Strange bird in Montrose, Colorado
>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:46:33 -0600
>
>Please look at the images of an odd bird we now having visiting us in
>Montrose, Colorado. We are unable to identify this individual.
>
>http://www.life.umd.edu/emeritus/reveal/pbio/FindIt/newbird.html
>
>Rose Broome & Jim Reveal


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