lpaul

Several things strike me as wrong for Pallid Harrier. One is the pattern of the underside of the primaries.  These are clearly narrowly tipped black whereas on pics of juvenile Pallid there is much more extensive dark areas covering more than the primary tips.  Wing structure seems wrong to me also.  On pics of Pied P1 is clearly much shorter than P4 (which is partly why the wing tip appears so pointed) whereas on this bird P2 and P4 are almost equal in length.

[ Last edited by lpaul at 7/04/2014 09:04 ]

lpaul

My apologies, I meant P1 and P5.

Also, I don't agree re Plate 216.  The entire 'finger' of P1-4 are rather solidly dark.

And if this is a Pallid Harrier, what age and sex is it?

lpaul

The Danish bird is starting to look promising in terms of plumage, and although the head pattern is not as well marked it does 'ghost' it, and the primary tip pattern is reduced.

I am still struggling with wing structure though, look at how short P1 is on that Danish bird...