ctakming

2 Jan 2010
Siu Lek Yuen

Is it an Eastern Crowned Warbler? Thanks.

kmike

This a a Blyth's Leaf Warbler

Cheers
Mike

kkoel

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

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!

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone ... p;sid=32268&m=0

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

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.