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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

American Robin / Back Neck Feathers Missing / Molting? - Photograph

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I took those photographs through a window at my house this past week. A group of American Robins was in my yard, looking for worms and other food. Yet several of them were all missing their back neck feathers. I'm assuming they were molting, but for several of them to be missing their feathers in the same area at the same time seemed a little odd.

4 comments:

David M. Gascoigne, said...

I am quite sure it reflects moult. Most members of the same species moult at around the same time in a progression involving the same feather tracts. In short order they will regrow them.

CJ Kennedy said...

I just looked up molting and robins. Seems to be something that happens to them each year between August and October. They replace flight feathers first and then the rest of the body. Maybe this helps them get through migration

Divers and Sundry said...

The moulting makes them look all raggedy, doesn't it. I don't notice that and don't know if it's because robins are year-round residents here.

Dixie @ Arranged Words said...

I think they are moulting too.
Robins are one of my favourite birds.