Subject: Pallas's Reed or Common Reed Bunting? [Print This Page] Author: esther03166 Time: 30/11/2016 20:02 Subject: Pallas's Reed or Common Reed Bunting?
Photo taken on 5Nov16 in Long Valley
Author: lmichael Time: 1/12/2016 16:09
This is the Common Reed Bunting previously posted by others from the same place/date. Note the chestnut/rufous lesser coverts which rule out Pallas's Reed Bunting (at least on currently accepted taxonomy).
It is an unusually small-billed bird likely a different race to the convex, rather bulbous-billed birds that we usually get in Hong Kong and which occur in reedbeds.
Mike leven Author: esther03166 Time: 1/12/2016 19:24
Thanks Mike
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