ctakming 2/01/2010 19:49
Warbler ID
2 Jan 2010
Siu Lek Yuen
Is it an Eastern Crowned Warbler? Thanks.
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/4236955832_36dd57ae3e.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4236956236_9d00a2bda7.jpg[/img]
kmike 3/01/2010 00:22
This a a Blyth's Leaf Warbler
Cheers
Mike
kkoel 3/01/2010 10:55
I'm under the impression that this an Eastern Crowned Warbler, as Blyth's would show a less diffuse crown stripe towards the rear of the head and have the hint of thicker wing-bars. Any more hints from the behaviour of the bird, i.e. did it appear sluggish and stick around thicker branches? ^^
subbuteo 3/01/2010 11:21
As an aside- has Blyth's been now been offically split into Blyth's/ Hartert's/Claudia's? Different books are calling the "same" bird different names. Is Blyth's P reguloides the commoner species in HK or P goodsoni? Also we seem to be calling it Goodson's rather than the "standard" name of Hartert's!
[url]http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32268&m=0[/url]
BirdLife states that Phylloscopus reguloides (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into P. reguloides, P. claudiae and P. goodsoni following Olsson et al. (2005).
ctakming 3/01/2010 20:32
Thanks all for the replies.
Here are 2 more poor photos. I am not sure it is the same bird but it should be the same kind of bird.
For the behaviour, its movement is a bit slow but I don't think it prefers thicker branches.
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4240632118_e12b76a078.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4240632122_bab7bb0c10.jpg[/img]