- due to the "
tail", also
known as a "train". The pea****
train consists not of
tail quill feathers, but
highly elongated upper tail coverts.
These feathers...
- are black. The
tail is dark
brown and the "train" is made up of
elongated upper tail coverts (more than 200 feathers, the
actual tail has only 20 feathers)...
- characteristic, in both ****es of all ages, is that the
entire tail is
black to the
level of the
upper tail-
coverts. The
desert wheatear feeds largely on
insects which...
- bows are green, sca****rs and
upper tail coverts are
green and cobalt.
There is a blue rump on
upper tail coverts. The
tail is dark
green with a cobalt...
-
tinged with buff. The back,
upper tail coverts and most of the
tail are white. A
black mask
extends from the ear
coverts to the bill. The
throat can be...
-
yellow mottlings, the rump is yellow, and the
upper tail coverts are
black with
white tips. The
wings and
tail are
black with con****uous
white spots, patches...
- red. The
central tail feathers are
black spotted with cinnamon,
while the tip of the
tail is a
cinnamon buff. The
upper tail coverts are the same colour...
-
central upper tail-
coverts are blackish,
while the
upper tail-
coverts are grey-brown and fade into a
small pale
patch above the
tail. The
tail itself is...
- qualities. Its
English name is
taken from the black-and-white
barred tail and
upper tail coverts in this species. In
French it is
known as
barge rousse, Russian...
-
reddish overall with an
amber sheen to the rump and the tips of the
upper-
tail coverts. S. s. ijimae, the
Ijima Copper pheasant, of
southeast Kyushu. Similar...