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Darkening owner-builder lurks in catalpa, euphorbia

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Subject: Darkening owner-builder lurks in catalpa, euphorbia
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 05:24:37 +0000

One of the resident bowerbirds in what I sometimes refer to semi-humorously as ‘the garden’, indeed the owner-operator of a bower here, is showing the transitional plumage of a 6th-year bird, the moult into the black plumage of the adult male

 

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