Mar
26

How About a Quiz?

By Rick Wright

How about sex, age…and subspecies?

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March 26, 2010; Vancouver, BC.

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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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