Yes Colin
"Dalmating" is a moult process through which birds develop a plumage
pattern with large regular black spots.
Regards, Laurie.
On Sunday, March 18, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Colin Scouler wrote:
Laurie,
When you say that the Great Knots were starting to" dalmate", do you
mean that they were starting to look like Dalmatian dogs ( as they do
in breeding plumage)?
I think you've just invented a new verb.
Colin Scouler.
On 18/03/2007, at 12:33 AM, L&L Knight wrote:
There was a full high tide this morning at the Manly wader roost
[SEQ] this morning, so there was a good turn-out ~ of the order of
1000 birds. There were hundreds of godwits, with quite a few well
into breeding plumage [one with a green flag]. There were also a
quite a few stints, with only a few in the early stages of colour
change [one with a orange flag]. There were also ~60 golden plovers
with a dozen blackening up nicely [one with a green flag] and the odd
hundred tattlers [at least two flagged - one with a green flag on the
right leg and another with a bluish flag on the left leg]. The Great
Knots were starting to dalmate and there were a dozen shanks in the
freshwater pond.
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