This is a second type LBBG actively moulting LBBG in
first summer. All the median coverts are growing
as one row, while the greater coverts are missing. In the folded wing the
secondaries are just visible, but when the wings are raised, the
secondaries are almost completely visible, all the way to the base. As in
many LBBG, the inner two greater and median coverts were already moulted
before winter. In the lesser coverts, some new grey second generation
feathers are growing in. The scapulars are dark brown, bleached, but where
new scapulars appear, its clear these are very dark grey.
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