Valtimo Marjomäki 31.5.2010

Finally I had time for Tarsigers again. For this morning I chose a place near my working area. I knew there must be some Tarsigers because last year I ringed two males there. I hoped to retrap one of those birds this year but all the birds I saw now were not ringed. Totally I had 4 males and 1 female there. I managed to catch one adult male.


Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) adult male
Summer 2010 male number 6.


The breast and head pattern.


The pattern of GCs. Seemed to be quite typical for adult male.

The pattern of PCs and ALs. This bird is one of those

adult males that have quite deep blue fringes in AL 1-2.

The tail pattern. TFs are fresh and have very nice and

rounded tips typical of adult males. The difference in

the shape of tips between 2nd cy and adult males is

the clearest in the central pair.