Second shot from that incredible morning.
unbelievable how beautiful this country really is.
First shot from that incredible morning.
unbelievable how beautiful this country really is.
1st shot in this series.
First shot from that incredible morning.
unbelievable how beautiful this country really is.
1st shot in this series.
The adult plumage above is black and the wing coverts and tertials having silvery streaks along the shaft. The crown and neck are brown shading to black towards the back of the neck. The underparts are blackish brown. A pale line over the eye and throat and a line running along the sides of the neck gives it a striped appearance. The iris is white with a yellow ring around it. The tip of the upper mandible is dark while the base is pale brown bill while the lower mandible is yellowish. The legs and webbing on the foot are yellow in immatures and dark grey in older birds.[citation needed] The sexes are not easily distinguishable but males tend to have black speckles that coalesce on the white throat.Adult females have a shorter bill and tend to have the black at the base of neck and chest separated from the hind neck by a wide buff band that ends at the shoulder. This pattern however is also found in immatures whose neck is lighter and lack the long pointed scapulars In flight the slender and long neck, wide wing and wedge shaped tail make it distinctive.Young birds have a pale brown neck and appear whitish on the underside and lack the white streak along the side of the neck. The inner secondaries or tertials and the central tail feathers appear wavy or corrugated. The tail is long and made up of twelve stiff feathers which are dragged along the ground when the bird attempts to walk or hop on land.
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