- "tail" of a pea**** is made of very
elongated uppertail coverts. The
upperwing coverts fall into two groups:
those on the
inner wing,
which overlay the...
- The
secondary feathers are also black, but with a
whitish fringe. The
upperwing coverts,
underwing coverts, and
tertials are white. The
forehead is swollen...
- form the
speculum together with the yellowish-white tips of the
larger upperwing coverts (which are
otherwise grey). The
underwing is whitish, with grey...
- rear edge of the wing,
which is not
shown by the long-eared; b) on the
upperwing, short-eared owls' primary-patches are
usually paler and more obvious;...
- ****. The
juvenile is
duller overall, with
little or no
white on the
upperwing.
Domesticated birds may look similar; most are dark
brown or
black mixed...
-
wings shorter; the ear-coverts
glossed purple, and the
underside and
upperwing gloss quite reddish. S. v.
humii Brooks, WE, 1876
Kashmir to
Nepal Small;...
- is white,
tipped black, and the long legs are yellow. In flight, the
upperwings have
black flight feathers and
brown coverts separated by a
white bar...
-
lesser and
median coverts. The rest of the
upperwing is a
blackish colour. The
underwing is
paler than the
upperwing, and the
underwing coverts are white....
-
pattern on the
upperwings with
white underwings. By
their first winter the head and body are
similar to
those of an
adult but the
upperwing pattern is retained...
-
Jodia croceago, the
orange upperwing, is a moth of the
family Noctuidae. The
species was
first described by
Michael Denis and
Ignaz Schiffermüller in...
