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Identify this Please identify this bald bird

Please identify this bald bird

krolandis 06/08/2023 21:24

It had a bald head with single upstanding feather, red chest. Seen in Devon near south coast.

0 Linda257 06/08/2023 23:16

It's a Robin....possibly going through its molt and still to get his new head feathers...or it could have mites.....there are quite a few bedraggled birds around the now...they molt after their breeding season has finished

(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
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0 WendyBartter 07/08/2023 12:44

Very unusual to see that lone head feather sticking up like a red indian's headress! Also great to catch it still singing heartily!

2013 photos & vids here

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0 tuwit 08/08/2023 01:31

That's a robin with a feather mite problem.

Used to have one here for a few years. It would go progressively bald after the moult. Come spring time it was an avian slap-head. At least that 'feature' enabled me to identify one specific robin. At the time I could (at times) count six fully feathered - plus this one that didn't overtly contest territorial boundaries.
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