Lots of birds have occasional white feathers where they usually don't. As well
as various other colour oddities. It would be too much for books to mention
this for individual species as it is basically a random event. The timing seems
fine, it could be from last year's breeding season.
Philip
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] youngster
PS: Also, in well-lit photos the bird’s uppertail looks green, another
point not in my fieldguides…
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018, Judithla <> wrote:
> Greetings, all!
> I’m looking at photos of a juv Figbird (sent from a leafy Brisbane suburb)
> in a ?poinciana tree for the last several days. The bird has one bright
> white rump feather. The field guides are silent on this variation. Any
> ideas? Just a random event?
> What’s also odd is that this guide says breeding occurs Oct-Feb…
>
> Judith
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