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alternate plumage
noun
Ornithology.
- (of birds having more than one plumage in their cycle of molts) the plumage of the second molt, usually brighter than the basic plumage.
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“They talk about ‘I think this is a worn alternate plumage of a second year whatever Iceland Gull which really looks a whole lot like a Herring Gull’.
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