This is something I have noticed with the Osceola's that we took in South Florida just in the season.
If you look at the post of the pic's and look over the birds you can see a slite difference in the colours and the tails.
Its known that the true Osceola's have a very black look in their wing feathers , but what I have noticed was that some seem to be a little blacker then others. There was maybe a 3 mile difference in areas that these birds were taken.
On another note look at the tail feathers in some of the birds in the pic's. All the birds with Odd length tail feathers came from the same gereral area. Guess it was in their geans.
I see this with the Easterns as well at times, but this was the first time I really seen it in the Florida birds.
Has anyone else seen these same sort of things in the birds ? ...BT
I really don't know why this is the case, but as far as the tail feathers goes with the birds taken...were the birds with odd length tail feathers jakes?
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No dee , some of them were adults. Check out the 2nd from the bottom , The jake that Jannette shot was taken from the same setup and it sure had a wild tail on it...BT
hey adrian, i have seen that before....never knew why...never even asked myself why....i guess i just figured that the bird lost a couple feathers to a coyote or coy dog and was growing them back...
Differences in birds in an area
