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Id | 5742 | ||||||||||||
Family | Wagtails and Pipits ~ Vipstjerter og Pibere ~ Lavanderas y Bisbitas (Motacillidae) | ||||||||||||
Species |
Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) Skærpiber ~ Bisbita Ribereño Costero ~ Skärpiplärka |
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Subspecies | littoralis | ||||||||||||
Locality |
Kongelundsområdet, Denmark
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Date | 2024-03-13 | ||||||||||||
Sex, Age, Comment |
Stranden, Sydvestpynten. A single bird present on a very foggy day. Found by Ove Raagaard. The pale orange breast made him suspicious, but falls within the known pattern for the species where some individuals show a colored breast. The rest of the bird is classic for the species with dark reddish legs, long dark bill, blurred flank streaks, same-colored nape and back, weak back streaking and the dark outer tailfeathers make sure we are not talking about a Water Pipit. Normally the western birds (petrosus) are darker, colder and greenish-gray without signs of a warmly colored breast which the eastern birds (littoralis) show on a frequent basis. It is probably most likely to be a littoralis then, though the eye brow on these birds normally is stronger. This latter character, however, is probably more floating than the first, why it should be safe to name it to subspecies. |
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