Hello Jeff,
This is not an easy one but I agree with Lloyd, its a young Graceful, at least
based on this photograph but photographs don't always show clearly the salient
features. The bill would have been better closed and not stuffed full of food!
The long, relatively STRAIGHT bill and crescent-shaped mark under the eye
(extension of the gape) are the key points to me.
Yellow-spotteds in general have a shorter, more curved bill and the feathered
extension to the gape is fairly straight, not crescent-shaped and, as Jeff
Davies said, more pronounced.
However all this is based on my photographs and I wouldn't bet money on it. I'd
rather hear them call - the Yellow-spotted is unmistakeable.
Cheers
Graeme
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