http://djringer.com/birding/2005/06/12/red-eyed-blackbirds/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:22:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://djringer.com/birding/2005/06/12/red-eyed-blackbirds/#comment-423 Search and Serendipity: A Birder’s Blog » A cloud of confusion Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:01:53 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=40#comment-423 [...] Disappointed as I would be to remove the species from my list, it appears that something larger than my personal satisfaction is at stake here. I saw birds with orange-yellow eyes. I saw A. cantoroides (Singing Starlings) in Madang, and those birds had bright red eyes. I know I did not imagine the difference in eye color. The question, I suppose, is whether sufficient variation exists within A. cantoroides to explain what I saw on Wuvulu. [...] [...] Disappointed as I would be to remove the species from my list, it appears that something larger than my personal satisfaction is at stake here. I saw birds with orange-yellow eyes. I saw A. cantoroides (Singing Starlings) in Madang, and those birds had bright red eyes. I know I did not imagine the difference in eye color. The question, I suppose, is whether sufficient variation exists within A. cantoroides to explain what I saw on Wuvulu. [...]

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