[Bluebird-babble] Fw: Help ID Bluebird (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Patrick Gould]

Thanks Janine, I appreciate your response

Pat Gould
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  From: Hegeman, Janine A CTR USA <mailto:Janine.Hegeman at us.army.mil>
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  Hope this helps...might be hard to find the source but at least it is a
  start.

  Janine

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Bunn, Rick L CIV USA IMCOM
  Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:33 AM
  To: Hegeman, Janine A CTR USA
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  Wings spread?  Maybe ingested poison... 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Hegeman, Janine A CTR USA
  Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:14 AM
  To: Bunn, Rick L CIV USA IMCOM
  Subject: FW: [Bluebird-babble] Fw: Help ID Bluebird (UNCLASSIFIED)

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  Any idea what could have  happened ? 
  Janine
   

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  From: bluebird-babble-bounces at denveraudubon.org<mailto:bluebird-babble-bounces at denveraudubon.org>
  [mailto:bluebird-babble-bounces at denveraudubon.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
  Gould
  Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:28 AM
  To: bluebird-babble
  Subject: [Bluebird-babble] Fw: Help ID Bluebird

   

  Hi
   
  Sad!!  I just found a female bluebird dead in one of my nest boxes.  She
  was on 5 eggs.  No sign of trauma although she had her wings spread as
  if trying to protect the eggs.  Could she have been scared to death or
  could there be a puncture wound that is no longer visible?  The nest box
  and nest were not disturbed and the eggs were intact.
   
  I am having trouble telling if she is a western or a mountain.
   
  She has a lot of very obvious reddish color across her breast but she
  has the thin white line over the bill (supposed to be a MOBL character).
  The longest primary minus the longest secondary is 37 mm + or - 1 mm.
  which should indicate WEBL although at the very top of its range.  The
  wing and tail lengths are in the range of overlap between the two
  species.  Are there any other good characters to separate females in
  these two species? 
   
  On the brighter side the juniper titmouse is incubating 5 eggs and one
  of my mountain bluebirds has 4 or 5 young perhaps only a few days old. 
   
  Pat
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