what is the difference between a male and female kingfisher?
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How do you tell the difference between a male and a female kingfisher? ... The key to telling the difference between a male and female kingfisher is the beak colour. The males beak is all black, the female has a pinky orange tinge to the lower part of the beak.
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Females Have Big Aprons When you flip a male and female Alaskan king crab over, you can readily see a difference in the tail flaps that fold over the bottoms of their shells. ... The female's apron appears bell-shaped, while the male's looks like the letter T.
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Males are slightly smaller than females but there is wide overlap. Females have proportionately longer and broader wings. Males tend to have a more deeply notched tail, which they twist and flex more than the females. It is difficult to tell the sexes apart unless you have two to compare directly.
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The male Monarch Butterfly may be easily distinguished from the female by noting the two highly visable black spots on the insect's hind wings and the thinner black webbing within the wings. The female's webbing is thicker and she has no identifying wing spot as the male does.
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Male orcas are much larger and heavier than females, growing as long as 32 feet and weighing 11 tons, while females grow up to 28 feet in length but tip the scales at 7 tons. The size of the dorsal fin is also a strong indication of gender. ... The flippers of adult males are also longer and broader than those of females.
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Both sexes have two pairs of barbels and the same stripes, but females are usually larger. Males are a bit smaller and more slender than females. Male zebras appear more torpedo-shaped, while females tend to have a larger belly. More full-bodied than the males, a female's belly balloons when it fills with eggs.
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The greater roadrunner is not such a bird: Males and females look extremely similar. Both are roughly the same size, reaching about 23 inches from bill to tail, and both sport the same mottled brown and white plumage.
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Unlike many birds, both sexes of osprey are similar in appearance. However, the female is larger- up to 20% bigger and a heftier bird. The females also often have more brown colouring on their chest than the males, a so-called 'necklace'.
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The undersides of a male's wings become dark, while a female's remain light. Other subtle differences between the male and female African grey include a more slender neck and narrower head in the female, and a rounded eye patch. The male eye patch becomes somewhat pointed behind the eye.
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There are two main indicators of sex in koi. The easiest way to tell is from fin shape and color. Male koi have smaller, more pointed fins that are opaque and generally colorful. Female koi, on the other hand, have larger, rounded fins that are partly or completely translucent or even transparent.
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There is one distinct feature that king crabs have that give their gender away. ... The tails fold and point toward the abdomen of the crab. If it is a male crab, the tail will be thin and triangular shaped. Female crabs have a much wider fan shaped tail that covers part of the back legs.
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A small video of Male & Female Cuckoo Birds(Koyal) in our house garden. Males and females can be distinguished by the color of their feathers. Upper parts of the males are bluish to gray, and their white bellies are intersected with dark lines.
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Identification. Male and female budgies are nearly identical to each other in appearance, with the only notable difference found on the "cere," or nostrils, which are near the beak. Most male budgies will have a bright blue cere and most females will have a pink, white, tan or brown cere.
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Females lack the mask, and their brown or greenish-brown plumage is less distinctive. Both males and females have thick orange bills, but those of the male tend to have some black coloration. Both males and females have triangular crests, and the male is about an inch (2 centimeters) larger than the female.
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Male blue jays tend to be larger in size than females, but since males and females share the same plumage, it is difficult to tell them apart by size alone. Careful observation of courtship and nesting behavior is the best way to tell the sexes apart.
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The easiest way to tell the difference between a male and female neon tetra is to compare their size. Usually female neon tetras are bigger than males and have a more rounded belly. Male neon tetras tend to have a flat belly, but not always the case. Neon tetras have a blue stripe on their body.
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Distinguishing between the two sexes of greater spotted woodpeckers is straightforward since the male has a red patch on the back of his head whereas the female's head is simply black and white. Both male and female great spotted woodpeckers have a bright red underside at the base of the tail.