Imagine being told that your only distinguishing visual feature is that you have no distinguishing visual features. Hurtful stuff.
But it’s quite a useful guide to the garden warbler. On first look they appear to be an unfinished model of ‘generic small bird’, to which interesting eye stripes, wing bars and a dash of colour are yet to be applied.
However…
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