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Crakes on the scope I: Baillon’s Crake
It’s not that often that you get several Baillon’s Crakes showing off that well during migration. It happened in early spring 2019 and it provided a very rare opportunity to study their plumages. Why do some birds have such a dull appearance in spring if there’s no sexual dimorphism? Can they breed in wintertime? And, if so, where are our Baillon’s Crake hatched? Too many questions and only one post to shed some light on the subject.
Dark Blue Almost Black
These days people -me included- only add photos to their rarity submission forms and skip the description, in their belief that a picture is worth a thousand words. Although this statement remains true in most cases, when the observation is brief, a single photo can lead to the wrong conclusion, even when we see something as 100% real. This Grey-headed Wagtail is an extreme case of how light can drive us mad.