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... juvenile spotted paler . Song , some half a dozen shrill , rather grating and squeaky notes , sounding at first as if made by more than one bird ; call a shrill robin - like ' tzee ' . Forest edges , parks , orchards , gardens and other ...
... juvenile spotted paler . Song , some half a dozen shrill , rather grating and squeaky notes , sounding at first as if made by more than one bird ; call a shrill robin - like ' tzee ' . Forest edges , parks , orchards , gardens and other ...
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... juvenile suc- cessively duller and browner , with dark streaks on breast . In poor light throat pattern is a useful ... juvenile more buffish - chestnut , and like adult has whitish under - wing . Juvenile also differs from juvenile Rock ...
... juvenile suc- cessively duller and browner , with dark streaks on breast . In poor light throat pattern is a useful ... juvenile more buffish - chestnut , and like adult has whitish under - wing . Juvenile also differs from juvenile Rock ...
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... Juvenile dull brown with paler throat and unspotted breast . Differs from Blackbird ( p . 257 ) at all times by shorter tail , bustling gait and triangular shape of wings in flight . Cf. Spotless and Rose - coloured Starlings ...
... Juvenile dull brown with paler throat and unspotted breast . Differs from Blackbird ( p . 257 ) at all times by shorter tail , bustling gait and triangular shape of wings in flight . Cf. Spotless and Rose - coloured Starlings ...
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adult adult barred bill birds black and white BLACK-HEADED GULL breast breeding brown browner buff Bunting Buzzard cheeks chestnut coastal conspicuous white crest crown dark darker desert display flight distinctive distinguished Drake duck Dunlin EAGLE especially eyestripe female Flight note forests fresh water gardens gregarious grey GULL Habitat harsh House Sparrow immature juvenile LARK legs Lesser LESSER WHITETHROAT loud mainly male marshes Mistle Thrush nape nest NIGHTJAR open country pale paler perch pink Pipit PLOVER plumage race REED WARBLER region rocky rufous Rw Map sandgrouse SANDPIPER scattered trees scrub semi-deserts Sexes alike Sm Map smaller SNOWCOCK Song Song Thrush Sparrow Spotted Spotted Woodpecker streaked stripe summer tail coverts Tawny Owl TERN Thrush Trumpeter Finch tundra underparts upperparts usually vagrant waders Wagtail WARBLER Wheatear white throat white wing-bar Willow Tit Willow Warbler wing-tips wings winter woodland WOODPECKER yellow Yellow Wagtail