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FW: WTP Egret

To: "Richard Nowotny (E-mail)" <>
Subject: FW: WTP Egret
From: "John Darnell" <>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:51:30 +0800
Hi Richard
You should have been copied in, on the wider circulation of this note, but 
somehow it didn't happen.
Regards
John

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         John Darnell
> Sent: Friday, 31 March 2006 1:21 PM
> To:   
> Cc:   
> Subject:      WTP Egret
>
> Hi Mike
> I entirely agree with your   'diagnosis' of WTP Egret - it looks very similar 
> to the juv. Little Egrets I regularly saw  in the Pilbara, and which 
> incidentally convinced me that the Australian birds should be split from the 
> Indo. ones - and so resurrect the name 'immaculata'. (I tried, but don't know 
>  if I succeeded to convince Dick Schodde of this for the Non-Passerine 
> section of the 'Directory"). I am sure that much of the i/d problems arise 
> from using 'nigripes' data as well as not appreciating the juv. bare part 
> colours of 'immaculata'. The claims of the Chinese/Swinhoes Egret - based 
> purely on "green leg colour" are, I suspect, all due to this lack of 
> understanding - with this exacerbated by the fact that local field guides do 
> not illustrate it. Our next WAM venture is to re-write/illustrate the WA 
> Field Guide - and I will certainly try to redress that ommission in it.
> Regards
> John
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