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The one on the right has white tips to the primaries, quite a thick band of yellow on the tail and a sharp border to the throat patch.

Suggests Ad ♂︎

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More tricky - no white tips to the primaries, three red tips to the secondaries. Difficult to see the nature of the throat patch.

Likely 1st W ♂︎
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Judging by the well defined throat patches these are both males but age?

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Strong, well defined white tips to the primaries. Good amount of yellow on wing and tail. Throat patch a little less easy to see.

Probably Ad ♂︎

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The one on the right. No white tips on primaries. Thin yellow band on tail.

Porbably 1st W ♀︎

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1st W ♀︎?

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Ad ♀︎?

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The one in the middle 1W♂︎?


A party of seven Waxwings Bombycilla garullus) on the edge of Beeston Common

Ageing and sexing criteria from Teesmouth Bird Club

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