lwingkay

Taken with an f4 Nikkor 300mm on a Nikon D200. As the myna turned its head sideway, sunlight fell on its face, unveiling the details of the features among the black head plumage.
Location: Hong Kong Park

[ Last edited by lwingkay at 23/09/2008 09:44 ]

tmichael

Isn't this in fact a Sulawesi Magpie, or whatever it's called - a member of an Australo-Papuan genus and not an Oriental one, such as mynas -  photographed inside the Sir Edward Youde Aviary at HK Park, the most reliable site for them in HK?

Mike Turnbull

lwingkay

[quote:1b8ecccbe0="tmichael"]Isn't this in fact a Sulawesi Magpie, or whatever it's called - a member of an Australo-Papuan genus and not an Oriental one, such as mynas -  photographed inside the Sir Edward Youde Aviary at HK Park, the most reliable site for them in HK?

Mike Turnbull[/quote]

I'm a green horn to birding. I looked up this species in Dorling Kindersley Handbooks and found this:This species breeds dominantly on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and it belongs to the Sturnidae family while the magpie the Corvidae where you will have the species like the jay, magpie, nutcracker, chough, jackdaw and crow. In this sense, there is no mistake about it with 'Sulawesi' but as regards 'Magpie', hm ... can some one here tell?