tbob

24th Feb 2006

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jingbar/4410033754/

Sorry I tried to embed the video but no luck

Thanks

PS: Could it be a female Grey-chinned Minivet ??

[ Last edited by tbob at 6/03/2010 11:09 ]

tbob

As the video clip is very short this may help in identifying.

Frame grabs off the video

Thanks

subbuteo

A similar bird to the one that puzzled me (link to images here:  http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/view ... p;highlight=minivet); it looks short tailed and quite dumpy.  However, I had the following reply from Mike Leven:

"The combination of yellow spots on the tertials and secondaries and a yellow throat rules out all the minivets except Scarlet. Perhaps it is a first winter male though that usually shows a more orange rump."

Which looks like it fits your bird too. So Scarlet Minivet.

tbob

Thanks for the quick reply, yes it does look similiar to your photos. I had been considering a Grey-chinned Minivet - Female. But I will go with Mike Leven answer.

For reference here are a couple of shots of the female Grey-chinned Minivet.

http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1

http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1

ajohn

I find that Grey-chinned is usually the commoner minivet in TPK, and often easy to see well. Compared to Grey-chinned, I find that Scarlet always stands out as looking large and chunky with a short tail and large head - with experience the two species are fairly easy to separate on structure alone. As mentioned before, the useful plumage features are the throat colour (yellow on female Scarlet, grey on Grey-chinned) and the yellow spots on the tertials of female Scarlet.

Bob's bird clearly shows the yellow throat and yellow spots on the tertials, and there is no doubt this is a Scarlet Minivet.

tbob

Thank you very much John for iding and those points of reference for future shots

Bob