繁殖も終わりボロボロのリュウキュウアカショウビン
石垣島のリュウキュウアカショウビンは、繁殖もすっかり終えて換羽が始まりボロボロのみすぼらしい個体が増えてきました。
今日は、バンナ公園内のアカショウビンのポイントを数カ所回ってみると冬羽に換羽が始まった個体を数羽確認することができました。
今年生まれの幼鳥は成鳥と変わらないまでに成長しています。
A juvenile Ruddy Kingfisher that had caught a spotted cricket. It had plunged into a Chuetsu palm thicket to take it.
An adult Ruddy Kingfisher beginning its moult into winter plumage. The moult is starting around the face.
This individual has a darkened bill. The flight feathers and tail are worn to tatters, right down to the shafts.
It was hunting exclusively in low spots just a few tens of centimetres above the ground.
The claws are also visibly darkened. I wonder what condition it will be in at its wintering grounds.
I went along the forest road looking for Emerald Doves — there were about three, but they were all distant or hidden deep in the scrub with branches and leaves in the way. The usual Crested Serpent Eagle was perched at ease in a Chinaberry tree, waiting for prey.
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