Age and sex please you trainee types, and your reasons.
Update, OGC detail:
And it's a female, that's not a white stripe, just the top of the white throat area. If there was going to be any black male plumage it would have been visible by now.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Don't You Just Love It?
When a plan works (for once). Set a net for a Grey Wagtail, catch a Grey Wagtail.
Age and sex please you trainee types, and your reasons.
Also, re-trapped today, Blue Tit P408722, ringed 13-Mar-05, age code 5, making it about 7½ years old. The oldest known from ringing records was aged 9 years 9 months 2 days (set in 1990)
Update, OGC detail:
And it's a female, that's not a white stripe, just the top of the white throat area. If there was going to be any black male plumage it would have been visible by now.
Age and sex please you trainee types, and your reasons.
Update, OGC detail:
And it's a female, that's not a white stripe, just the top of the white throat area. If there was going to be any black male plumage it would have been visible by now.
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Male - Broad White Submustachial Stripe
ReplyDelete6 - No contrast between Greater Coverts / Primary Coverts
I'm going to say adult female. Adult due to the apparently yellow breast and a lack of apparent contrast in the wing; female due to it lacking a black throat and perhaps the supercilium could be brighter.
ReplyDeleteNo Black Throat probably because its outside of summer
ReplyDeleteAnd possibly because its a female in winter
ReplyDeleteMy gut (without reaching for a book, and without seeing any the hand for many years!) feeling is to 5 it because it looks like there's a moult limit in the greater covers with a few new inner ones. The outer ones look browner than the possibly replaced median coverts.
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