Fwd: FW: RFI – Little Bittern Records from Northern Australia & a previous live Yellow Bittern Record

Reply from Jeff Davies, whose messages are not getting to Biridng-Aus for some reason: ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Jeff Davies <jeff@jeffdavies.com.au> Subject: FW: [Birding-Aus] RFI – Little Bittern Records from Northern Australia & a previous live Yellow Bittern Record It’s both Chris, But I prefer the secondary coverts because it is so obvious to see. Male Australian Little Bittern has much reduced tips to Greater Primary coverts which can be very tough to see, female has more obvious brown tips but can at times be difficult, juvenile has very obvious/spectacular orange rufous tips. But when it comes to greater secondary coverts, Australian Little Bittern has a run of the outer most third or more that form a solid block of brown, grandma with her glasses on can see it. Whereas Yellow Bittern has no brown outer secondary coverts at all, presenting with an intact solid panel of pale right to the secondaries and entirely black primaries and primary coverts. Cheers Jeff _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org