ML122573681

Age

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Sex

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Media notes

Photo by MJ Keller

Observation details

Per Paul Roberts: The new photos confirm my original impression and yours beyond any shadow of doubt. The front photo shows a typical imm Coop pattern of streaking much more refined than on an immature sharpie and very lightly marked on the belly. (Often Coop’s will have more delicate streaking than this, while sharpies have thicker more randomly shaped noodles.) If you magnify the tail in the photo, you’ll see that it is definitely rounded. Outer tail feathers much shorter than inner rectrices. Just tightly closed. It still looks a bit odd from underneath so it is possible it lost a rectrice (or two) that is just completing growing back in. The original photo showed the limitations of seeing a tightly closed tail from the back. Looking at the underneath view, you see why. The second photo shows the flatter head and the hackles partially raised, so it looks much more Coop like (square-headed). (And the eyes front). The one anomaly left is that the clean white terminal tail band still looks pretty narrow for a Coop. Further magnified, it looks as though the white tips of the central rectrices might be abraided, as though the bird has spent considerable time perching on a concrete bridge stanchion or brick building, as these feather are no more than six months old. (Or maybe gravestones?)

Technical information

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792 pixels x 527 pixels

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