1. Fairly fresh juvenile coverts and many scapulars, i.e. with neat fringes and lacking extensive wear in the tips.
2. New scapulars with an anchor pattern, the centres may have a broad base reaching to the feather edges.
3. Dark centred tertials with a small white fringe and tip.
4. Dark outer greater coverts.
5. A broad dark tail band.
6. Dark inner primaries.
7. Dark under-wing coverts.

As can be seen in the September Section, many local Dutch LBBG moult scapulars and even moult coverts and tertials already in the colony, while begging for food. By September, these early moulting individuals are totally outnumbered by fresh looking and late moulting 'cousins', probably from northern colonies (thus later hatched eggs). Later egg laying date in northern populations will result in more fresh looking individuals which may decide to moult once arrived at the wintering grounds, by which they avoid the moult during migration. This is hard to prove, unless much more ring recoveries support this idea. But so far, ringed intermedius have been found and moult was never as advanced as in local Dutch LBBG (see the score table in the August Section). To find evidence for postponement of moult for migration reasons, best thing to do is score intermedius (colour-ringed birds) in Africa at the wintering grounds. Here in the Netherlands, we find ringed intermedius as late as December, giving them enough time to complete the replacement of all the scapulars (something they apparently don't do, although it's hard to predict whether or not birds like the one in image a2 will make it to replace all scapulars on Dutch ground). Some LBBG found mid-October may still show a complete juvenile plumage (e.g. image a6, with only very limited wear in the scapular fringes).

Nevertheless, we think some of the bird captured in these 9 images may belong to local Dutch population (we read Dutch rings even in November), but many LBBG probably belong to intermedius populations from Scandinavia, although some (like picture a5) resemble English or Belgian ringed individuals.