Tail Banding Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
An American birder might consider a hybrid with the size (actually, slightly bigger) of a Band-tailed Pigeon and the wing pattern of a White-winged Dove. Add a broad, dark tail band and you pretty much have a woodpigeon.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
It’s 90% Broad-wings, paddle-shaped with crisp tail bands, but there are a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks mixed in too, looking for all the world like the flying gavels described in every hawk-watching tome. Eventually these specks below the horizon coalesce into funnels of birds above the horizon.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
Also present in good El Nino years are the occasional and much sought after Blue Petrel with its distinctive black sub-terminal tail band with white trailing edge, a unique diagnostic feature amongst petrels.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
From the tail band, it looks like an immature. Skimmers, of course, use that laterally flattened mandible to cut the water and leave a trail of light–intriguing to small fish at dusk. When the fish rise to investigate, a split-second snap of the bill captures a meal. It’s a three-year seagle.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2017
The dreadful screeching put me in mind of a young bird crying to be fed, but the juveniles are much lighter underneath with dark streaking, two broad tail bands and paler, scaled crests. The call sounded as though a piece of bodywork was rubbing against the wheel of an approaching lorry. The mate did not look impressed.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2014
Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. Most field guides show photos or diagrams of birds with arrows pointing to the eye line, primaries, secondaries, etc.
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