[Tweeters] bird molts, pics on eBird, and Peter Pyle

[Steve Hampton]

Last night renowned ornithologist Peter Pyle gave a wonderful webinar on
the history of bird identification (for banders) and a very deep dive into
all we've learned about bird molting in recent years.

One interesting take-home is that he wants birders to post more pics of
scrappy molting birds on eBird. He just re-wrote the book (literally) on
the molt sequences of hummingbirds by studying thousands of online pics
from the Macauley Library (eBird). So cool. He bemoaned that 71% of the
pics were of beautiful males. He encouraged us to take pics of molting
adults, immatures, and females to tell the story.

The talk has been posted. The hummingbird part starts around 41:30 in the
video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8Kpt-U1ww

good birding,

-- 
Steve Hampton
Port Townsend, WA  (qatáy)
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