wleepoin 25/04/2010 18:19
Great Frigatebird (probable)
[img]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254/pwmk_photos/G-Frigatebird-1-25Apr10-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254/pwmk_photos/G-Frigatebird-2-25Apr10.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254/pwmk_photos/G-Frigatebird-3-25Apr10.jpg[/img]
South of HK Waters
25th April, 2010
Please correct us if id is wrong...but we are more than happy if this is an Christmas Island Frigatebird!!! hehe...
Same place as last record of Great Frigatebird seen on 27th April 08, just 2 days difference.
Cheers
PWMK
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lchunfai 25/04/2010 18:23
Good shots , Peter Gou~ 3551004445 3551face87445
John Holmes 25/04/2010 21:11
Jolly Good Boating Weather
A couple of shots from us
kmike 26/04/2010 14:47
A great find!
What are the criteria for separating Christmas Island Frigatebird from Great?
Cheers
Mike
cchristina 26/04/2010 16:38
Shooting the Frigatebird under rocky condition!
[img]http://images4.fotop.net/albums2/yinming/posting/image5.jpg[/img]
cgeoff 26/04/2010 17:03
Mike,
That's easy! Which have I seen before and which not ?!
Geoff
cywong 26/04/2010 22:42
Would anyone kindly explain why this is not a Lesser Frigatebird?
Can it be a second year Lesser Frigatebird?
tmichael 26/04/2010 23:11
I - who saw the bird - have had very little time to check sources, but I've got one or two that suggest that black extending up the belly can only indicate Lesser.
I've never seen a frigatebird in this moult condition and maybe that is giving it the unusual, rangey, angular proportions it seemed to have, which seemed wrong for Lesser at the time
Mike Turnbull
cywong 26/04/2010 23:57
Mike,
Thank you very much for your reply.
More photos of this frigatebird for sharing
John Holmes 27/04/2010 06:09
Frigatebird
On "Oriental Bird Images" THIS is labelled as a Lesser, and looks quite similar to the one near Lamma on 25th April 2010
[url]http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?p=9&action=searchresult&Bird_ID=1174&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1[/url]
John
kmike 27/04/2010 09:16
The image of a juvenile Lesser Frigatebird in Harrison's seabirds also looks a good match - Mike T's comments about the extent of black on the belly, and the shape of the spurs seems to point in that direction.
Geoff, since I didn't see it makes no difference whatever which one it turns out to be!
Cheers
Mike
wgeoff 30/04/2010 04:23
I saw this bird from the Stanley to Po Toi Ferry at about 3.45pm last Sunday.
Here are three photos from the other side of the world.
[img]http://www.geoffwelch46.com/GFRIGATEB00.jpg[/img][img]http://www.geoffwelch46.com/GFRIGATEB01.jpg[/img][img]http://www.geoffwelch46.com/GFRIGATEB02.jpg[/img]
It looked pretty big to me, so under the Geoff Carey rules for identification, I'll go for Greater Frigatebird