Is the suggestion it's a Red-necked. Or an 'abberant' grey? This is a juv Grey (it has dark tertials, adult phals' tertials are grey), there is some 'yellow' at base of bill = grey, not red necked, which is all dark, though some grey juvs lack yellow too. And it's moulted in some grey upper feathers already: Red necked starts this later (oct?) Nov. The bill tip is blunt relative to a red-neck tip which gets v thin at tip. I wish it was Red-necked. Never had one in Oxon!
Are we sure this is not a red necked? Check bill and mantle pattern.
ReplyDeleteAbberation - grey phalarope.
DeleteAbberation - Grey Phalarope
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it was ringed
ReplyDeleteIs the suggestion it's a Red-necked. Or an 'abberant' grey? This is a juv Grey (it has dark tertials, adult phals' tertials are grey), there is some 'yellow' at base of bill = grey, not red necked, which is all dark, though some grey juvs lack yellow too. And it's moulted in some grey upper feathers already: Red necked starts this later (oct?) Nov. The bill tip is blunt relative to a red-neck tip which gets v thin at tip. I wish it was Red-necked. Never had one in Oxon!
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