Kilbogget Park, Adult male 

'Grey-bellied brant' 

Found by Stephen King 

Stephen found a very well marked adult male 'grey-bellied brant'

type at

Kilbogget Park with appropriately 300 pale-bellied brent.

This bird also had two First-winter birds with it that are presumably

offspring from the previous breeding season. This adult and its

two offspring

are not part of the original flock from Sandymount and

Kilcoole in my previous articles. 

This adult male appears to be slightly darker

than that of the Sandymount/Kilcoole bird which

is also attached below. A lot of this is due to the

lighting situations while viewing the birds in question,

which I have spoken about in previous work on geese.

Adult male 'grey-bellied brant' Kilbogget Park  - Stephen King

Adult male 'grey-bellied brant' with family flock Kilbogget Park 28th December 2020 -

Stephen King

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ in flight - Kilbogget - Stephen King

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ - Kilbogget - Stephen King

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ and two offspring - Kilbogget - Stephen King

All images below taken by Stephen king In Kilbogget park, Dublin

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ - Kilbogget - Stephen King

This image represents the broad white neck

collar of the ‘new’ adult male bird from Kilbogget park.

It is broader and almost meets at the front unlike that

of the other adult male from December 2020.

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ Kilbogget December 2020 - Stephen King

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ January 2021 - Kilbogget - Stephen King

Adult male ‘Grey-bellied brant’ December 2020 - Kilbogget - Stephen King

The below images are taken by Niall Keogh

of the new adult male and

its two first-winter offspring. All phonecoped images.

Several ‘grey-bellied brant’ types have

now been found in Dublin alone this year,

it is great to see more and more people searching for them and

photographing candidates.

We will learn a lot from doing so!

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