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<blockquote data-quote="Stoshowicz" data-source="post: 571853" data-attributes="member: 31397">There may be some regional variation about the green lores in adults for the green heron , down here I see them basically going from off-season yellowish to a rather dark navy blue , the legs go reddish orange. Adult neck sides are un-striped burgundy , the juvvies have stripy yellowish orange necks ,, some of the middle american tiger herons have striped necks too.&nbsp;As it shows on my monitor , your colors are heavily saturated , which is fine if you like the brightness of the color, or your monitor isnt in accord with mine,, but subtle color cues that bird nuts like me latch on to for ID purposes may not present themselves as they would ,if you allowed for a more desaturated presentation, but often it doesnt matter. Books like to show the birds -(like the gnatcatcher)- which exemplify the most obvious characteristics of the species, and often skip females immatures subadult males and even basic non breeding plumage. So only the small percentage of the birds that you would ever see of a given species , will be identifiable using such a source.As with these gannets all taken on the same day which I cant delete for some reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stoshowicz, post: 571853, member: 31397"] There may be some regional variation about the green lores in adults for the green heron , down here I see them basically going from off-season yellowish to a rather dark navy blue , the legs go reddish orange. Adult neck [U]sides[/U] are un-striped burgundy , the juvvies have stripy yellowish orange necks ,, some of the middle american tiger herons have striped necks too. As it shows on my monitor , your colors are heavily saturated , which is fine if you like the brightness of the color, or your monitor isnt in accord with mine,, but subtle color cues that bird nuts like me latch on to for ID purposes may not present themselves as they would ,if you allowed for a more desaturated presentation, but often it doesnt matter. Books like to show the birds -(like the gnatcatcher)- which exemplify the most obvious characteristics of the species, and often skip females immatures subadult males and even basic non breeding plumage. So only the small percentage of the birds that you would ever see of a given species , will be identifiable using such a source. As with these gannets all taken on the same day which I cant delete for some reason. [/QUOTE]

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