Purple Swamphen, western ssp

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Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:32:19 +0000

Hi all

I have a photo of the western ssp of the Purple Swamphen up at ABID

http://www.aviceda.org/abid/newimages.php?action=latestimages&p=11&pagesize=1

If that link doesn't work it's on about the fourth line of the new imagespage.


http://www.aviceda.org/abid/newimages.php

Now this specimen has a lighter blue front than eastern birds, as sspbellis is supposed to have, but it also has even paler blue, irregularpatches too. I assume that these are some sort of discolouration, nottypical for the ssp.


Could WA confirm this and I'll emend my ambiguous note on ABID.

John Leonard
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