baby white bellied caiques?

Owlet

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Someone posted an article to facebook that was talking about white bellied caiques but the picture was of what appeared to be black capped caiques (though one only had like.. a partial cap) and I was confused so I google white bellied caique babies and a lot of the images of clearly babies with black caps or partial caps but other (still clearly babies) didn't have a cap. Is this just people not getting their birds right or do some white bellies have a cap before they mature?

example:
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Clearly babies, don't have the cap.

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Appear to still be young, have black on their heads. Labeled as white bellied caiques.
 

Rozalka

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I was reading an article about WBC's and a lot of their babies have black feathers on the head. Later it disappears
 

Laurasea

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Immature White-bellies are a dull version of the adult with a heavy yellow wash on the abdomen and have varying amounts of dark feathering on their heads. The dark feathers can be intermingled with the orange feathers giving a brindle appearance, or can appear almost solid. While many pairs tend to have similarly colored chicks, mostly all light headed or dark headed babies, some pairs can have both light and dark headed chicks in the same clutch. The majority of the dark feathers will be replaced with orange during the first molt at about one year old. Any remaining dark feathers will be lost in successive molts and usually by three years old their heads are bright orange. Birds that have very dark heads as babies tend to have deeper orange color as adults.

So looks like white bellied Caique can have some dark head feathers as babies :)
 

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