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flycatcher ID please

flycatcher ID please

is this an Asian Brown Flycatcher?
Oct15 Wetland Park
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[ Last edited by esther03166 at 20/10/2015 23:55 ]

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Asian Brown Flycatcher

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Agree it's an Asian Brown Flycatcher - a 1st-Winter bird with retained juvenile feathers on the head and scapulars. Although Dark-sided Flycatcher regularly shows juvenile feathers on migration, "young Brown Flycatchers only exceptionally retain juvenile feathers on the upperparts." It's certainly a plumage I haven't seen often in HK and could be confusing.

The quote is from the paper on flycatchers by Paul Leader in British Birds November 2010 Vol. 103. A useful paper which includes a number of photographs by local HK photographers. Link to the article is: http://britishbirds.co.uk/wp-con ... 8%E2%80%93671_A.pdf

David

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Thank you very much!

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