- 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...
-
plumper abdomen.
Bupalus piniaria ♂ ♂ △
Bupalus piniaria♀ ♀ △ The male has
upperwings with
broad dark
brown borders and
spots and a
background varying from...
-
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...
- The "tail" of a pea**** is made of
elongated uppertail coverts. The
upperwing coverts fall into two groups:
those on the
inner wing,
which overlay the...
-
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;...
- neck-sides is
bordered below by a
narrow white bar. The
upperparts and
inner upperwings are medium-dark grey; the
breast is mid-grey but the rest of the underparts...
-
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...
- G. c.
meridionalis is
smaller than the nominate, has
slaty blue-grey
upperwing coverts and
lacks the
olive wash.
Subspecies G. c.
orientalis is similar...
- ****. 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...
- mandible, and the legs are flesh-coloured.
Young birds with all-dark
upperwings can be hard to
differentiate from the
northern royal albatross. There...
