I think these photos were taken during the regular birds ringing conducted by HKBWS Ringing Group at Mai Po this morning. From the comment of the Ringing Group, it may be a Chinese Goshawk instead of a Chinese Sparrowhawk.
Below is their comment:
The shape of the wing is actually very obvious when comparing the photos. Chinese Goshawk has 4 "fingers" while Japanese Sparrowhawk should has 5. Wing tip of CG is at 3rd primary but should be 4th in JS. Our bird goes for the CS in term of wing shape.
Also, as described in some guide book the underwings covert of CS is "no barring in underwings covert and less barrings than JS in secondary". These features are shown in our photos.
Cheers,
Forrest Author: tmichael Time: 21/10/2006 22:41
Thanks Forrest.
I did think the underwing pattern and the underpart pattern looked like Chinese Goshawk soloensis, so I wonder why it was labelled "Japanese" (in Chinese).
Mike Turnbull
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