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Immature birds have more prominent brown bars and marks in their plumage, giving a ' dirty ' appearance, and their eyes are predominantly brown for the first two years of life.
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Immature birds of this subspecies have tails with a darker, duller red towards the tip ( Juniper and Parr 1999 ) until their first moult, which occurs by 18 months of age.
Immature birds resemble the Middle Spotted Woodpecker ( D. medius ), the male White-backed Woodpecker, the immature Syrian and White-winged Woodpeckers, and male or immature Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ( Picoides minor, formerly also in Dendrocopos ).
Immature birds are duller in color, with a dull blackish-gray crown, and the flank pattern only weakly defined ; they have no plumes, and the bill is dull gray-yellow.
Immature birds have brown plumage, which is gradually replaced by white until the age of five or six years.
Immature birds have been recorded weighing as much as during their first flights ( at which time they may still have fat reserves that will be shed as they continue to fly ).
Immature birds are similar to Grey-headed Albatrosses but the latter have wholly dark bills and more complete dark head markings.
Immature birds have mainly brown upperparts and brown-tinged whitish underparts, and lack the crest.
Immature birds are streaked on the throat and flanks, and often do not have the black mask of the adults.
Immature birds in their first year after moulting from juvenile plumage may have pale tips in their wings, while juvenile birds themselves have duller plumage, their upperparts brown-tinged with some pale brown scallops on the head and breast.
Immature birds lack iridescence and are dark brown, grading into slightly lighter brown on the underside.
Immature birds resemble the adult females, but are duller and have hardly any white at the bill base.
Immature birds have dull grey-brown plumage on their heads, wings, and backs, with numerous pale spots.
Immature birds are grey instead of black and have a markedly sandy hue on the wings, with light feather fringes appearing as a whitish line in flight.
Immature birds tend to be darker and more uniformly brown than European Herring Gulls and have a dark tail.
Immature birds are generally similar in appearance to the adults, but the blue-grey in the plumage is replaced by buff.
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Immature specimens are known from both females and males, and immature males often have small crests similar to adult females.
Immature spines have impaired signaling capabilities, and typically lack " heads " ( or have very small heads ), only necks, while matured spines maintain both heads and necks.
Immature Western Bluebirds have duller colors than the adults, they also have spots on their chest and back.
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Immature or undifferentiated cells show highly variable values of resting voltage, usually significantly more positive than in differentiated cells.
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Immature birds are distinguished by their smaller size, smaller duller brown bill, dark grey chin and throat, and absent or underdeveloped head plumes, often just a scattering of yellow feathers.
Immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack the darker head and with uniform buff underparts can be confused with immatures of other munias such as the Tricoloured Munia.
Immature birds show some grey or buff feather tips on the head and wings, and have brown around the eyes.
Immature birds of both sexes usually show some gray or buff feather edges on the head and wings and are mottled with cinnamon to rusty brown along the edges of the white breast-belly stripe.
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