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Stonechat with a lot of white, Norfolk (1 Viewer)

Georgebirds

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United Kingdom
Looking back at some pictures from Thornham on the north Norfolk coast - this one Stonechat seems to have a lot more white on than usual.
I investigated with google photos but with seasonal and individual variations it was all a bit too much for me to make clear sense of - some photos in the Siberian search have a lot of white and others have nearly none, and it's the the same for searches on the Common species. I decided this is wayyyy above the limits of my own observational skills and gave up, but now I thought I'd hand it over to the ever-helpful experts here on Birdforum! Common Stonechat which just happens to have more white than the ones I'm used to seeing, or Siberian Stonechat?
 

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Thanks, and no worries about dismissing a rarity - confirming this much white is perfectly possible is just as interesting to me at this point in my birding. Maybe in years to come I'll be a keen subspecies-ticking kind of birder, but at the moment I'd rather get familiar with all the seasonal and individual variation to be seen in relatively common bird I feel I should get to know better, than be sure I'd seen a slightly different bird to list, if that makes any sense!
 

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