Identification du Busard pâle : deux cas déroutants

In this article, we present you two notes about two difficult cases of identification: a bird that was initially identified as a first Summer female Pallid Harrier, mainly because of the white tips of the inner primaries and the unmoulted axillaries, was finally re-identified as Montagu’s Harrier (C. pygargus) mainly because of the head pattern, the finely barred primaries and the comments of Andrea Corso, Dick Forsman and Klaus Malling-Olssen, and a first summer (2nd calendar year) Pallid Harrier watched in the North of France with a rarely described plumage in the field guides.