Subject: ID plz [Print This Page] Author: Hung Time: 21/06/2010 17:04 Subject: ID plz
Is it Red-billed Starling(絲光椋鳥)
21-6-2010 Kowloon Park
Sorry for poor photo
Author: HFCheung Time: 21/06/2010 17:23
I cannot tell from the photo either. However, Red-billed Starling in summer in HK is highly unlikely. Please consider the possibility of other starlings. In Kowloon Park, Chestnut-tailed Starling is common. So please consider that carefully.
HF Cheung Author: msamuel Time: 21/06/2010 17:38
It looks like a white-shouldered starling to me. Author: Hung Time: 21/06/2010 19:42
I still think that it is Red-billed Starling.It has red mouth, red leg and a little white dot on the wing
However, as mantioned by Fai Gor, Red-billed Starling in summer in HK is highly unlikely. Author: tmichael Time: 21/06/2010 21:43
But is it impossible?
I've not birded much in Guangdong villages in summer (not at all in fact), but they were very common in villages in Wuyuan, Jiangxi when I was there recently.
However, that is quite a way to the north I know.
Mike Turnbull.
PS more plausibly but in a similar vein, I believe I had a (Chinese) Blackbird yesterday near my home in Po Lo Che, Sai Kung, seen with naked eye as it flew along in front of my car for c 40 m on a quiet side road parallel to Hiram's Highway next to the WSD installation. Breeding locally perhaps? Author: lrichard Time: 21/06/2010 22:13
Silky Starling (incomparably better name IMO than Red-billed Starling) bred in Hong Kong at Tai Mei Tuk in summer 2007 and 2008 and there are also occasional summer records from Cheung Chau in the last couple of years. So, it's not not impossible for it to be in Kowloon Park in summer now.
On the photo, orange-red legs and white wing spot look right for Silky, but the bill looks very, very thin.
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