Female due to brown tones in plumage (not glossy black).
Age almost one-year due to worn and faded primaries and tail (this is a guess, I do not have a reference for molts, but adults of many bird species molt in fall and would be crisp and new.)
Subspecies is oregonus, a rather sedentary species with smaller and sparser wing spots found from SW BC to southern Oregon, west of the Cascades.
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April 17th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Female due to brown tones in plumage (not glossy black).
Age almost one-year due to worn and faded primaries and tail (this is a guess, I do not have a reference for molts, but adults of many bird species molt in fall and would be crisp and new.)
Subspecies is oregonus, a rather sedentary species with smaller and sparser wing spots found from SW BC to southern Oregon, west of the Cascades.
April 18th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Precisely right.