ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
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ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Answers for this challenge are due by replying to this topic by midnight (NZDT) on Saturday 14 November 2009.
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Re: ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Pied Shag, juvenile.
Cheers, Tony Wilson.
Cheers, Tony Wilson.
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Re: ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Juvenile Pied Shag (Phalacrocorax varius)
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Re: ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Juvenile Pied Shag.
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Re: ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Hmm ... They don't get any easier!
Given the apparently long, grey bill, possibly bluish eye-ring, and that the throat (and probably breast) are white with dark streaking/mottling rather than the other way round, I'll go with an (in my experience) unusually marked juvenile/immature Pied Shag.
(Fingers crossed)
Wynston Cooper
Given the apparently long, grey bill, possibly bluish eye-ring, and that the throat (and probably breast) are white with dark streaking/mottling rather than the other way round, I'll go with an (in my experience) unusually marked juvenile/immature Pied Shag.
(Fingers crossed)
Wynston Cooper
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Re: ID Challenge #4 - closes 14 November 2009
Pied shag - Juvenile
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It's a member of the shag-family. It seems quite a big one with a strong bill. Brownish-dark above, streaked and mottled underparts with a white throat patch. Eye with a blueish eyring and a in front of the eye a patch of bare skin. Pied shag and ad.King Shag have a bare patch. The mottled underparts suggests a juv bird and therefore only Pied Shag with the bare patch in front of the eye match.
So I go for juv. Pied Shag.
So I go for juv. Pied Shag.
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Juvenile Pied shag
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As I see it there are three possibilities. The caruncles infront of the eye rules out all but Pied Shag, King Shag & Chatham Island Shag. A juvenile in any case, as the caruncles are not yet brightly pigmented, and the feathers fresh and shiny. The head profile low and long, with yellow tinge to caruncles eliminates CI Shag. And out with King due to a lack of white on the shoulder/coverts, and in the R&H fieldguide juvenile king shags are illustrated as lacking caruncles (too bad the location isnt apparent).
Pied Cormorant - juvenile
Phalacrocorax varius
Pied Cormorant - juvenile
Phalacrocorax varius