Subject: Warbler ID [Print This Page] Author: ctakming Time: 2/01/2010 19:49 Subject: Warbler ID
2 Jan 2010
Siu Lek Yuen
Is it an Eastern Crowned Warbler? Thanks. Author: kmike Time: 3/01/2010 00:22
This a a Blyth's Leaf Warbler
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Mike Author: kkoel Time: 3/01/2010 10:55
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? ^^ Author: subbuteo Time: 3/01/2010 11:21
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!
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). Author: ctakming Time: 3/01/2010 20:32
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.
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