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Menetries's or Sardinian?? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Clibanarii
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Grahame Walbridge
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Menetries's, presumably a 1st-summer male?
There is racial variation; nominate mystacea, whose range extends to the W shore of the Caspian Sea, shows the pinkest underparts. Think this should be turcmenica on range which is less pink.
Grahame
To correct what I said earlier, probably within the breeding range of nominate (the range includes northern Iran) but I see no reason why turcmenica doesn't pass through on en route to its breeding grounds which include NE Iran. An overshooting rubescens, which would better explain the absence of pink on the breast, seems more unlikely.
Perhaps any pink tones, if reduced, are 'burnt out'?
There is racial variation; nominate mystacea, whose range extends to the W shore of the Caspian Sea, shows the pinkest underparts. Think this should be turcmenica on range which is less pink.
Grahame
To correct what I said earlier, probably within the breeding range of nominate (the range includes northern Iran) but I see no reason why turcmenica doesn't pass through on en route to its breeding grounds which include NE Iran. An overshooting rubescens, which would better explain the absence of pink on the breast, seems more unlikely.
Perhaps any pink tones, if reduced, are 'burnt out'?
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Clibanarii
Well-known member
thanks SJC & Grahame.
@Grahame: thanks for making it clear for me. S. m. rubescens it is!
@Grahame: thanks for making it clear for me. S. m. rubescens it is!
