Hi again,
While catching up on Facebook at lunch yesterday, I was at one point arguing about how the media blew the early reporting on "Deflategate" while at the same time possibly rushing to judgement on my own. To stick with the football analogy, the "call is under review" again.
So, luckily, there are no daily ferries for people to race out and chase this falcon! Because, I may have been wrong in my excitement. One of my friends who adamantly agreed with Gyr brought up a good point and we're revisiting the ID. Three of us involved in the discussion may have all rushed to judgement.
The problem is that we have three photos, all essentially showing only the upper 2/3rds of the bird, when some of the important characteristics (wing projection, tail pattern, leg feathering) is just not known. Furthermore, the re-introduced eastern Peregrine (subspecies "Anatum") can look very, very dark, perhaps due to expression of genes from some of the possible hybrid stock or Peale's (Pacific NW) used in the breeding stock.
Anyway, don't charter a boat to Monhegan just yet. ;) More soon.
-Derek
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Hi all,--Angela Iannicelli photographed a dark morph GYRFALCON at White Head on Monhegan Island back on April 14th.It was shared to her Monhegan Trucking Facebook page, just in case this link doesn't work:-DerekSent from my iPhone
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