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In reply to the discussion: Buff-tailed Coronet [View all]

Donkees

(32,474 posts)
4. Underside is buff.
Sat Jan 7, 2023, 11:12 AM
Jan 2023



The sixty or so different bird species that include this ubiquitous color in their common names represent just the tip of the yellow-brown plumage iceberg.

Buff adorns bands, bars, bellies, breasts, bridles, brows, cheeks, chests, collars, crests, faces, fronts, heads, necks, rumps, shoulders, spots, streaks, tails, throats, vents, and wings. From owls and woodpeckers to sandpipers and rails to a handsome host of passerines, most bird families have some relatives daubed with buff.

https://www.10000birds.com/color-me-buff.htm

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Buff-tailed Coronet [View all] Donkees Jan 2023 OP
I had never heard of that bird before. Haggard Celine Jan 2023 #1
So beautiful. FalloutShelter Jan 2023 #2
Beautiful cyclonefence Jan 2023 #3
Underside is buff. Donkees Jan 2023 #4
And so it is! Tx cyclonefence Jan 2023 #5
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