Thursday, December 08, 2005

Fleeing Pileated shows a lot of white

I regularly hear people say that the Luneau bird must be an Ivory-bill because it shows "too much white on the upstroke and downstroke".

The video available here shows a rear view of an ordinary Pileated--this bird also shows a lot of white on the wings, whether at the top or bottom of the wingstroke: