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sonofjack666 Member of the Wild Empire Registered: June 2009 Location: St. Agnes, Cornwall. Posts: 376	Thought this was a Cuckoo (J), but the beak is wrong.Someone suggested Roseate Starling (J). I don't think it is. Pair on telephone wire at bottom of garden. Sorry for quality of photo. Please help with identification.
	· Date: Tue August 21, 2012 · Views: 157 · Filesize: 171.5kb · Dimensions: 862 x 739 ·
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Bob Fleming
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Tue August 21, 2012 4:50pm

It's a juvenile Blackbird moulting into adult plumage

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sonofjack666
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Registered: June 2009
Location: St. Agnes, Cornwall.
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Tue August 21, 2012 5:12pm

Thanks Bob,

You have settled a debate between my son's mum-in-law and myself. I thought it was a cuckoo(j) apart from the beak and she thought it was a rose cloured starling (j). Both wrong and honours even. it seems obvious that it is a blackbird when it is pointed out to you and you can see the adult plummage supplanting the juvenile feathers, but it would have never crossed my mind that it was this species without your kind assistance.

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