The Montagu's Harrier is a breeding visitor in Spain, coming from its wintering areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The first bird is a dark morph female, a rare sight.
This morph has blackish-brown to greyish-brown body and wing coverts.
Flight feathers and rectrices are darker.
However, the pattern of the species is usually visible.
We can find male, female and young in dark morph.

The male is a normal morph. It was hunting with the dark female.
On the roadside, another similar male was foraging with a second female of usual morph.

We can see here the differences between the two females.

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