wgeoff

Graham Talbot found and digiscoped (!!) this rather wet-looking sub-adult gorsachius Night Heron shortly after the rain stopped on Po Toi early this morning (Friday 7th). I saw it about 30 minutes later.



We presume it is Malayan although its overall brownish colour is very different to the grey-brown of last year's sub-adult bird, see this photo of last year's bird for comparison



Can anyone explain the difference?

[ Last edited by wgeoff at 7/05/2010 16:17 ]

kmatthew

Perhaps its just at a different stage of moulting or plumage to the previous bird?? I was looking through OBC and found this one, this one is very brownish in colour too.:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1