Jaeger Conclusion (sort of)

["Tim Avery" <tanager at timaverybirding dot com>]

So its been about a month and a half since the Jaeger was handed to the 
University of Utah and today I received an email letting me know that 
the bird hasn't been studied in depth because the bio lab was extremely 
busy.  The bird was put into a freezer to be examined and added to the 
collections later.  However, I left a brief description of the bird and 
thoughts that it was most likely a PARASITIC JAEGER with the bird, and 
based off a quick overview of the bird they agreed.  For those of you 
not on the ID-Frontiers listserve, the bird in question stirred up quite 
a discussion putting many of the conventional ID tips in question.  
Experts disagreed over the ID, and it wasn't till I was able to 
photograph the bird in hand that certain marks were definite and helped 
with a conclusion.

In any event, I just thought I would make a quick note to everyone about 
what I had heard on the ID of the bird.

GOOD BIRDING!

Tim
http://www.timaverybirding.com
http://www.birdingwyoming.org
Salt Lake City, Utah
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