-
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...
-
plumper abdomen.
Bupalus piniaria ♂ ♂ △
Bupalus piniaria♀ ♀ △ The male has
upperwings with
broad dark
brown borders and
spots and a
background varying from...
- 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...
- "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...
-
plumage is grey above, with a
black nape and
crown and
white ch****s. The
upperwings are pale grey, with the area near the
wingtip being translucent. The tail...
-
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;...
- mandible, and the legs are flesh-coloured.
Young birds with all-dark
upperwings can be hard to
differentiate from the
northern royal albatross. There...
- ****. 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...
-
common moorhen G. c.
orientalis (Horsfield, 1821) Small, with
slate grey
upperwing coverts and
large frontal shield.
Found in the Seyc****es,
Andaman Islands...
-
colored slightly differently in most species, and all have a
characteristic upperwing coloration in flight: the
tertiary remiges form a
green speculum, the...
