- 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...
- The tail is white,
tipped black. In flight, the black-headed lapwing's
upperwings have
black flight feathers and
brown coverts separated by a
white bar...
-
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...
- neck,
white throat,
black moustaches and
mesial stripes,
brown back and
upperwings, and
brown bars on
white underparts and underwings. The
juvenile is brown...
- 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...
-
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;...
-
breeding plumage. Forster's has a gray
center to its
white tail, and the
upperwings are whiter,
without the
darker primary wedge of the
common tern. Forster's...
-
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...
