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Redpolls from Chukotka (1 Viewer)

oleg2oleg

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This birds on my mind should be juvenile Common Redpoll? Common, not Hoary?
Eastern Chukotka, end on July
 

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Another question are these Redpolls Common or Hoary? Same place, same time..

Thank you!!
 

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I'd say safest to call them all Common. Post 2 #2 is the closest to being an Arctic, but even there, I reckon the flank streaking is too heavy. It would be interesting to see what it looked like a month or two later after the moult is finished though.
 
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