Recently, the local birding subculture puzzled over a bizarre looking shorebird.  Even, the experts were stumped and hesitant to use the H-word--Hybrid.  You see, even birders find it a bit dangerous to call race x race = hybrid.  Race in bird terms indicates the same species with color and morphology variations.  Mutants are an even more touchy anomaly, yet all species have mutants, too.  So, when are we going to stop talking on the level of race and start talking on the level of species?