January 5, 2011

Towhees

California towee, with a single white feather on its head, which shouldn't be there.
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Spotted towhee
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Spotted towhee wing, showing a typical HY/SY molt pattern: fresh greater and lesser coverts, and tertials (black), and retained juvenile primaries, secondaries, and primary coverts.
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