¡Feliz Navidad!
It’s Christmas morning here in the ABA Area, as good a time as any for a photo quiz. Our photo is from Nicaragua, where so many of “our” ABA Area breeders are spending the holidays right now. The authors don’t know what this bird is! They have a hunch, but nothing definitive. Oh. That was a terrible pun. And an important clue.
Well, have it. As always, we greatly appreciate comments that contain some amount of explication. Don’t just say, “Common Chlorospingus.” (Indeed, don’t say that at all. ’cause it ain’t.) Share a bit of your knowledge and insights with us.
The answer (not) and analysis, written up by ornithologists Marvin A. Tórrez, Wayne Arendt, and Claire Everett, appear in the Dec. 2017 issue of Birding magazine.
Thanks, and Joyeux Noël, Mele Kalikimake, and Merry Christmas to all of you!