Juvenile Coal Tit and Adult...olive backed and grey respectively? (1 Viewer)

KenM · Jun 4, 2019

Family party of 4 around the feeder N.E.London this am, thought the upper-part tones were markedly different, the juv.Coal Tits, olivey backed just like their Great Tit counterparts, however quite unlike the parent bird?

Another separate question to any Continental birders. Do juv.Coal Tits have olive upper-parts, or do they resemble the adult in having grey upper-parts?

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Richard Prior · Jun 4, 2019

Hi Ken, the juv Coal Tits out here are slightly warmer toned on the upperparts than the adults, ie olive-grey rather than grey, but it's not that striking. As you hardly get rain in SE England anymore perhaps adult birds are starting to get the famous 'bleached' look that we used to associate with desert species (next thing you'll be getting breeding Hoopoe Larks on Rainham Marshes

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KenM · Jun 4, 2019

Richard Prior said:
Hi Ken, the juv Coal Tits out here are slightly warmer toned on the upperparts than the adults, ie olive-grey rather than grey, but it's not that striking. As you hardly get rain in SE England anymore perhaps adult birds are starting to get the famous 'bleached' look that we used to associate with desert species (next thing you'll be getting breeding Hoopoe Larks on Rainham Marshes).

Richard Hi, I’m sure in another 500 years it’ll all be quite different....we might even have our Red-backed Shrikes back then.

Richard Prior · Jun 4, 2019

Hope springs eternal etc etc

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