Subject: [Rails] Water Rail 普通秧雞 [Print This Page] Author: 深藍-Owen Time: 4/01/2007 21:18 Subject: Water Rail 普通秧雞
Long Valley 04/01/2007
Author: wgeoff Time: 4/01/2007 22:07
Owen, great shots of this difficult bird. Author: kmike Time: 5/01/2007 00:08
This picture shows very clearly the difference between "Eastern" Water Rail - like this one - which has a dark brown eye-stripe and Western Water Rail - the one at Mai Po last month- which had an all-blue face.
Western also has no barring on the undertail coverts, but this group of pictures does not show that so well, while this bird shows barring - on pic no. 4.
The Water Rail was very expose today, but in very dim light, so can't get a good photo of it. But still it was very amazing to see such a secretive bird walking out in the open.
6/1/2007 Long Valley
20D + 400mm
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