Juv Jameson's Firefinch? South Africa 2019 06 (1 Viewer)

[Andy Hurley]

Please help with this finch from the southern Kruger National Park ZA June 2019
Thank you in advance

 

[Andy Hurley]

Andy can you help?

Anyone else?

Its about to fall off the front page....

 

[Kamba]

It’s a Sparrow but not sure which... thinking juv Cape but don’t get them here in Zim so not 100%

 

[Andy Adcock]

Andy can you help?

Anyone else?

Its about to fall off the front page....

I looked yesterday and it baffled me, I thought Sparrow rather than Firefinch too but which?

 

[Andy Hurley]

It’s a Sparrow but not sure which... thinking juv Cape but don’t get them here in Zim so not 100%

I looked yesterday and it baffled me, I thought Sparrow rather than Firefinch too but which?

Thanks guys, but if a sparrow, it is not even in the fat Chamberlain.

May be a pigment deficiency, so the dark markings are absent?

Cape Sparrow juveniles being fed look rather grey to me.

Does the bill look a bit small for a sparrow?

It has a sparrow-like wingbar, albeit rather faded

 

[Andy Adcock]

Thanks guys, but if a sparrow, it is not even in the fat Chamberlain.

May be a pigment deficiency, so the dark markings are absent?

Cape Sparrow juveniles being fed look rather grey to me.

Does the bill look a bit small for a sparrow?

It has a sparrow-like wingbar, albeit rather faded

Got me stumped Andy.

 

[Andy Hurley]

After some searching, I came up the following:

Dilution

and Dilution a form of leucism