Subject: ID please [Print This Page]

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Author: Siudidi    Time: 10/04/2007 13:57     Subject: ID please

Mai Po
09/04/2007

This picture taken at Deep Bay yesterday, I cannot identify the brown bird.

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Author: lpaul    Time: 10/04/2007 16:00

Eurasian Curlew

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Author: ajohn    Time: 10/04/2007 17:36

I think this depends on which 'brown bird' you mean!
The 3 larger birds at the back are Eurasian Curlews.
The smaller birds in front are all bar-tailed godwits: note the long, slightly upcurved bill. The red birds are in breeding plumage, the browner birds are still in non-breeding plumage.

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