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Subject: [Hong Kong] Flycatcher ID Please [Print This Page]

Author: thebirdguy    Time: 22/03/2017 20:51     Subject: Flycatcher ID Please

Is it a red-breasted or asian brown? Seems like there is a light ring around the eye.

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Author: jsk_ppp    Time: 22/03/2017 21:00

Seems like a Red-throated.
Author: thebirdguy    Time: 23/03/2017 06:45

Thank You!
Author: ajohn    Time: 24/03/2017 17:07

The tail pattern is useful here - you can clearly see on this bird that the tail and uppertail coverts are black, with a small white patch on the base of the outer tail feathers. This tail pattern can only be found on Red-throated and Red-breasted (treated as the same species until recently).

Red-breasted should have browner uppertail coverts and usually a paler base to the bill, so I agree this is Red-throated (which is also more likely than Red-breasted, which is rare in HK).




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