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Unusual colored Magpie

To: "'Williams, Roger'" <>, "'canberrabirds'" <>
Subject: Unusual colored Magpie
From: "Mark Clayton" <>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:53:00 +1000

The bird appears to have done a complete body moult but for some reason seems not to have moulted the wing feathers, hence the brown, oxidised, faded look.

 

Mark

 

From: Williams, Roger [
Sent: Thursday, 14 May 2015 12:42 PM
To: canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Unusual colored Magpie

 

                       At Batemans bay yesterday, a Magpie with different colours to the normal black and white.

                   Roger

 

 

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