Bird of the Week Challenge: 16th June - battle of the sexes

Happy Monday everyone. This week lets collaborate on matching males and females in the challenge. Whilst not true for all birds, there are many where the males and females are able to be distinguished. In any of the fairy-wrens it is as plain as day, for others, like Galahs, it is more subtle (coming down to the eye ring).

The challenge will work by having one person post one of the sexes (where there is a visible difference), then the next poster has to post the other sex. Specific instructions are below:

Guidelines:

• Only post species where there is a visible difference in the sexes - and that difference should be evident in the photos.
• A poster cannot post both the male and the female (and if you have them both in one shot, try to crop one out if possible). So you cannot post the challenge and then post the response.
• Poster 1 posts the first sex, poster 2 posts the opposite sex (so the male or the female). Poster 2 then gets to post a new species (if they have another to contribute) - if they don't have another and state that, or more than 12 hours passes, then someone else can post BUT poster 1 must wait a turn (so cannot post the response to poster 2). Does that make sense? So if you lead off one set (male and female), you sit out the next set...
• Each species can only be posted once.

Hope that is clear - please let me know if it isn't. If you are unsure, ask.