Whilst birding the Jubail area 7 July I found 16 Egyptian Nightjars with at least seven juveniles. Two of the juveniles could hardly fly and indicate they were bred locally at this site. The plumage is very fresh and smoothly soft, and they pretty much all have nice, neat white fringed coverts forming neat lines across the wing as well as the tertial tips. The birds are lacking the honey-orange spots on the shoulder of the wing that adults show with the adults also generally having darker plumage than the juveniles. Adult birds at this time of year are mainly in heavy primary moult with up to 4 to 6 new inner primaries that can easily be seen on birds in flight.
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| Juvenile in flight |
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