At any rate, that gives me an opening for a local birding update. I had posted a while back about a flourescent-green goldfinch witnessed by my partner at the time (I was looking the other way) and it seems that it must have been an otherwise ordinary female goldfinch but of unusually intense coloration. I mention that because lately we are getting reports of a bird much like a robin but colored robin's-breast-red all over. This seeme to be a related bird perhaps a veree but also of more intense than usual coloration.
Heuvelmans noted on his checklist that there are an increasing number of reported big cats seen in unusual colorations (such as green leopards) and he suggests that the rate of mutants might be going up. I think the same thing applies here. We have also been through sightings of a white-headed crow and an unusually dark mockingbird in Indianapolis that I had mentioned in the past year. BTW the last mockingbird I saw (yesterday) was of the ordinary coloration.
Best Wishes, Dale D.
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