She definately looks to be missing a few feathers. Wonder how it happened?

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the bird looks pretty healthy, so I'm hoping the wing damage has not prevented it from feeding and grooming. I bet it makes that bird sound unique when flying.

Yes, the bird looks to be healthy - albeit missing a few pieces of wing. Good to know it's still able to feed and fly.

Hope it didn't have a run in with a loose cat! Much as I like cats - my dogs don't :o) And the dratted neighbor has a slew of that prowl the neighborhood.

~ Cat

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Hi, Frank. Looks like this gal's got a combination of molt in both wings and a primary feather missing out of normal molt order on her right wing. Anna's normally molt this time of year, but there's no telling what happened to the other feather.

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It's molt. The latest I hear from my resident expert is that primary molt in Anna's is almost complete, but there are always variations in the general pattern. If you watch your birds closely, you'll often see missing feathers.

This is probably a young female. An adult female Anna's that we banded yesterday had beautiful, fresh wing feathers, but youngsters lag behind adults in molt. Many of this year's kids will probably show wing gaps for weeks to come.

I agree that it's molting. The bully male in my yard looks REALLY scraggly and the back of his head even looked like it was missing a couple tiny ones.