HKBWS Ivan 25/10/2015 16:09
European Golden Plover
Our surveyor found a European Golden Plover at Geiwai 16/17 in Mai Po Nature Reserve this morning.
Noted the bird with chunky body and head, larger size compare with Pacific Golden Plover in the 2nd photo, proportionately short legs (PISTON & HEINL 2001)
Also the underwing color is key feature to distinguish Pacific Golden Plover and European Golden Plover. European showed Whitish underwing and Pacific showed a greyish.
For more details for ID, there are an article about 1st record of European Golden Plover in Alaska. please see [url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wb/v32n03/p0179-p0181.pdf]https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wb/v32n03/p0179-p0181.pdf[/url]
Thanks for Mr. Yu Yat Tung & other friends to give suggestion to ID
Thanks for Mr. John Holmes to get a good photo of the underwing to look more details to confirm the ID
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星魚 25/10/2015 17:43
Wonderful Find! Congrats Ivan
cthomas 25/10/2015 19:24
Thanks for your great find!
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John Holmes 25/10/2015 20:30
European Golden Plover
Thanks to Ivan TSE for finding this bird today.
Some record shots from me (in the order they were taken).
lexusjohn 26/10/2015 11:08
Good find and good shots !!!
hkinni 27/10/2015 22:20
Thank you Ivan ,Peter and Michelle
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