SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY

Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club         Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert         Trinidad and Tobago Rare Bird Committee

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)

A                                                            B

C                                                D

Immature male at Orange Grove, Trinidad, 8 December 2000 (A); immature female at Lowlands, Tobago, 22 December 2000 (B); immature female at Caroni Rice Fields, Trinidad, 23 September 2001 (C-D). Photos © by Floyd Hayes. Note the thick, slightly downcurved, black bill, whitish face and pale legs. The pale margins of the wing feathers indicate that each bird is an immature.

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