[Birdtalk] Hummingbird Confusion

[tanager at timaverybirding.com]

Jason,

>From my phone this looks like a Black-chinned, but its hard to tell.  The bird looks like its wearing a full green vest and in the second image it appears to show some purple on the gorget

I could be wrong though since the pictures are hard to see on here. 

Broad-tailed are unique in the sound that male birds make when they fly.  Black-chinned often give a series of chirps that are quite distinctive. 

Also on an alpha code note, Broad-tailed is BTAH, although I have also seen BTLH used.  Blue-throated is the species in the USA that conflicts in initials.

Cheers 

Tim 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Pietrzak <pietrzak at gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:42:40 
To: Bird Talk<birdtalk at utahbirds.org>
Subject: [Birdtalk] Hummingbird Confusion


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