However, it would be strange if there were no prenuptial molt, especially in young birds.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in July before or while they migrate and a partial prenuptial molt, as in the young bird, before they arrive in the spring.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in July and probably a partial prenuptial molt, as in the young bird, though there is not enough pertinent material available to prove the latter.
He says that the first nuptial plumage is "acquired by a partial prenuptial moult which involves most of the body plumage (except posteriorly), the wing coverts and sometimes the tertiaries but not the rest of the wings nor the tail.
I can find no evidence of a prenuptial molt in either young or old birds.
Dickey and van Rossem (1938) say that the prenuptial molt "begins in late February and is not finished before about the middle of March.
There is a limited prenuptial molt about the head, and wear has removed most of the edgings and fading has made the under parts clearer.
The adult nuptial plumage is acquired by a partial-prenuptial molt as in the young bird.
Dwight (1900) says that the first nuptial plumage is "acquired by a partial prenuptial moult which involves chiefly the crown, sides of head and throat, but not the rest of the body plumage nor the wings and tail.
Then, the latter part of March, comes the prenuptial molt that brings such marked changes to the male.
Adults probably have a partial prenuptial molt similar to that of young birds.
The first nuptial plumage is acquired by a partial prenuptial molt "which involves much of the body plumage and wing coverts, but not the rest of the wings nor the tail.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in July and a prenuptial molt as in the young birds.
Yet, Field Place requires us to believe slightness was a principal characteristic of the prenuptial intercourse of these young people!
It is doubtful whether such a period ever existed,[1954] but it is certain that prenuptial license has been common, and this laxity may have prepared the way for organized prostitution.
Prenuptial medical inspection should become the custom, if not by law at least as a voluntary procedure.
A partial prenuptial molt, similar to that of the adult, produces a first nuptial plumage, in which young birds can be distinguished only by the retained juvenal wing coverts.
The prenuptialmolt of adults is incomplete, involving nearly all of the body plumage, but not all of the feathers of the back, scapulars, tertials, or wing coverts.
A partial, or perhaps nearly complete, prenuptial molt takes place in young birds between March and May, involving the body plumage, sometimes the tail and most of the scapulars and wing coverts.
Adults have a partial prenuptial molt of the body plumage, usually the tail, scapulars, some tertials, and most wing coverts between February and May.
Adults have a partialprenuptial molt between February and June, involving most of the body plumage, but not all of the scapulars, wing coverts, and tertials.
Both young birds and adults have a partial prenuptial molt in the late winter and early spring, involving the contour feathers, wing coverts, tertials, and the tail.
But this is almost immediately preceded by the delayed molt of the remiges in January and February, so that it seems to be a nearly complete prenuptial molt, which is barely finished before the birds start on their long northward migration.
In some young birds the prenuptial molt seems to be omitted and the postnuptial molt seems to be a change from one winter plumage to another.
A partial prenuptial molt, similar to that of the adult, produces during the spring a first nuptial plumage in which young birds can be distinguished from adults by varying amounts of retained winter feathers.
At the first prenuptial molt the next spring young birds become indistinguishable from adults, except for some of the old juvenal wing coverts.
At a partial prenuptial molt, mainly in April and May, the adult renews the body plumage and tail and some of the tertials and wing coverts.
The next partial prenuptial molt apparently removes all traces of immaturity.
Adults probably have a partial prenuptial molt in early spring and a complete postnuptial molt in late summer, but there are no well marked seasonal differences in plumage.
Probably the prenuptial molt of the body plumage takes place in April.
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