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[[Image:Black-backed_Puffback.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Leon<br />Photographed in Pretoria, South Africa. June 2004.]] | [[Image:Black-backed_Puffback.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Leon<br />Photographed in Pretoria, South Africa. June 2004.]] | ||
− | == | + | ==Identification== |
− | + | Length 17-18 cm; Weight 19-36 g. | |
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− | + | Size smallish to medium (smaller than Fiscal Shrike); tail relatively short; mainly black-and-white. '''Male''': Above black; rump grayish white; no white eyebrow; wings black-and-white; below white; tail black. Named from the loose feathers on the male's rump and lower back. '''Female''': Similar to male, but less intensely black; white areas more buff or grayish white. '''Immature''': Deep buff olive where adults white. | |
− | Female: Similar to male, but less intensely black; white areas more buff or grayish white. Immature: Deep buff olive where adults white. | + | |
+ | Eyes yellow, orange or red; bill black; legs and feet grey. | ||
+ | ===Male's Display : === | ||
+ | The male puffs out the white rump feathers "to form a remarkable white ball, then bows, droops vibrating wings, and spreads tail. He makes short 'butterfly' flights with the puff expanded, and may drop vertically through the air with raised wings. Courting birds audibly click their wings" (Zimmerman ''et al.'' 1996). | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Dryoscopus+cubla}} | {{GSearch|Dryoscopus+cubla}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Dryoscopus]] | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Dryoscopus]] |
Revision as of 14:17, 10 August 2008
- Dryoscopus cubla
Identification
Length 17-18 cm; Weight 19-36 g.
Size smallish to medium (smaller than Fiscal Shrike); tail relatively short; mainly black-and-white. Male: Above black; rump grayish white; no white eyebrow; wings black-and-white; below white; tail black. Named from the loose feathers on the male's rump and lower back. Female: Similar to male, but less intensely black; white areas more buff or grayish white. Immature: Deep buff olive where adults white.
Eyes yellow, orange or red; bill black; legs and feet grey.
Male's Display :
The male puffs out the white rump feathers "to form a remarkable white ball, then bows, droops vibrating wings, and spreads tail. He makes short 'butterfly' flights with the puff expanded, and may drop vertically through the air with raised wings. Courting birds audibly click their wings" (Zimmerman et al. 1996).