Voting Comments
Record #: 10-B-02
Yellow-billed Loon
1st Round: 6-1
2nd Round: 7-0
ACCEPT
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1st Round |
2nd Round |
| 08-03-2007. Sturts -- Accept The photo on the website shows the diagnositc features of the Yellow-throated Loon and Larry Barns,the photographer confirmed the date and location by email to the Committee. |
09-14-2007. Sturts -- Accept I am staying with my first vote for the same reasons. |
| 8/3/07. Cliff Weisse -- Accept The photo shows field marks that confirm the identification of Yellow-billed Loon. |
9/16/07. Cliff Weisse -- Accept See first round comments |
| 6 August 2007. Hardy -- Accept Photo shows diagnostic face pattern and striping on back, also bill held upturned. |
3 October 2007. Hardy -- Accept Same comments as first round. |
| 08-07-2007. chuck trost -- Accept No description, but a fairly adequate if fuzzy photo. The massive size of the bill and its shape, plus the slightly up-turned position convince me that it was this species. This bird was posted on IBLE and many people also saw it. |
010-06-2007. chuck trost -- Accept While I agree with Dave that the picture is dark, the bill is too massive for a COLO. As i recall, many people observed this bird, and while it is too bad that larry didn't discribe it better, I am confident that it was a Yellow-billed Loon. |
| 08-10-2007. Dave Trochlell -- Reject, specific identification not established This loon image confounds the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words", because I sure couldn't identify it from this image, and (unfortunately) we don't have any description of it. Did anyone else have difficulty deciding whether it was a YBLO or a COLO? I did, but wondered if it appeared to be so dark because of an artifact of photography. If that's the case, it would've been extremely helpful to have had a good written description at hand to explain this problem. |
010-16-2007. Dave Trochlell -- Accept I'm convinced. |
| 8-23-07. Carlisle -- Accept good photo & I remember many observers seeing this bird |
10-28-2007. Carlisle -- Accept Though a dark photo (& I agree that a more thorough description would be helpful), I think it shows bill shape & color well. |
| 9/11/2007. Charles Swift -- Accept Photo clearly shows a basic plumage Yellow-throated Loon. |
10/2/07. Charles Swift -- Accept I believe other comments addressed Dave's concern, notably bill structure, face pattern, and pale back barring. |