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saw a rock pipit with a white supercilium but someone said that it may not be littoralis because of plumage changes in petrosus in spring - true?
 
Ordinary Rock Pipits (petrosus) do not have a white super they are very drab birds. I've seen petrosus in all plumages so what you saw could be littoralis. (Famous last words!!!)
 
TWM said:
Ordinary Rock Pipits (petrosus) do not have a white super they are very drab birds. I've seen petrosus in all plumages so what you saw could be littoralis. (Famous last words!!!)
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I have seen Rock Pipits on the Outer Hebrides in summer, that looked very like littoralis and certainly had whitish supercilliums. I believe this feature is in the literature. These birds had dependent juvs so I'm assuming they were petrosus.
 
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