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![]() male, winter
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2017-01-16
Odeska oblast. Hkadjibeevsky liman. |
© Yuriy Kodrul
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Dominant color of male Smew in breeding plumage is white. From bill-base to eye the broad greenish-tinged black strip passes; same color strip cross passes the nape, behind the extended feathers formed crest. Two narrow black strips are on each breast-flank. Back, outer shoulders, greater wing coverts anf flight feathers are black. Uppertail is dark-grey with pale tips of feathers. Flanks of body are with narrow grey wave strips. Tail is grey. Female has rusty-brown crown and rear-neck, white throat and fore-neck, almost black lores. There is small crest on nape. All upperparts are grey, darker on mantle, shoulders are browner. Craw, flanks and belly are white with not clear grey-brownish mottles; undertail is clear white. Wings as on male. Juveniles are similar on female, but all color are dim and underparts are almost dark-grey. Male in summer is undifferent from female. Bill is leaden, legs are grayish with darker web. Eyes are bluish-white in male and brownish in female and juvenile. Sizes: wing 175-205 mm, tail 67-80 mm, tarsus 28-34 mm, bill 25-30 mm. Weight: 450 - 750 gr.
"Птицы Казахстана" том 1. АН КазССР. Алма-Ата, 1960.
1. Kodrul Yuriy (169)
2. Burkovsky Oleksandr (155)
3. Raldugina Oksana (143)
4. Chernolyev Yevgen (140)
5. Gedziuk Vlad (115)
6. Komarovskyi Dmytro (115)
7. Komarovskiy Alex (112)
8. Repin Andrii (112)
9. Sevidov Viktor (112)
10. Pavlenko Elena (94)