Tuesday 11 June 2013

11th June 2013 Cuckmere

American Golden Plover 1 first-summer ex.



 
 
 
 


First-summer American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere
A real beauty found by Matt retaining its worn juvenile brown primaries and plenty of winter-type coverts and tertials but also sporting some boldly patterned summer-type mantle feathers and scapulars. Note the long primary projection (longer than its bill) being comprised of four visible primary tips projecting beyond its longest coarsely-notched tertial.
 
First-summer American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere (JFC)
Smoky-grey axillaries and underwing coverts and some dark-centred undertail coverts
 
 
 
American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere