But Bruce Lyon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Erick Greene of the University of Montana in Missoula wondered why, then,
yearling male lazuli buntings were so variable in color, with some birds almost as dull as the all - brown females and others as splendid as the full - grown males.
These sightings included individual black bears and sows with very young cubs and
yearlings, also grizzly brown bears, large
males and sows with
yearling cubs!