Jim:

Almost all of us southern birders would have IDed that bird as a Boreal Chickadee.  I amazed by how much better of a job the Stokes national field guide depicts Boreal Chickadee than the Crossley field guide does.

Thanks!

Steve

Stevan Hawkins
San Antonio TX



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From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of James P. Mattsson
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:39 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] "Boreal" chickadee photo on Recently Seen

Before it is removed from Recently Seen, the photo of an aberrant Black-capped Chickadee is worthy of study. It is quite easy to see how a brief view of such an individual could result in it being incorrectly identified as a Boreal Chickadee. It's really a cool photo. 

http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/recent.pl 

Jim Mattsson 
Eagan 

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