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Subject: It is a chick of Black-winged Stilt, isn't it? [Print This Page]

Author: thinfor    Time: 2/11/2009 22:36     Subject: It is a chick of Black-winged Stilt, isn't it?

29Oct09, Sheung Yue River, Long Valley.

I could not think of any waders except the chick of Black-winged Stilt.  But is the bill still too short for a stilt chick?


Author: kkoel    Time: 2/11/2009 23:15

Manson it's a non-breeding Little Ringed Plover. =)
Author: thinfor    Time: 2/11/2009 23:24

Thanks Koel.  From my first glance thru telescope, I thought it was a little-ringed plover too.  But the long reddish legs seemed quite strange!

Well, anyway that's good.  At least my first instinct telling me that 'it's a plover' is indeed quite true.  
Author: kkoel    Time: 2/11/2009 23:42

I was thinking about that too, the long reddish legs do look a bit out of place. But as the rest of the bird seemed to suggest Little Ring, let's put it as an apparent LRP XD
Author: cwchan    Time: 3/11/2009 11:14

They are not red legs, it is coloured fringe while you have your shot taking against the light, I think.

This red-coloured fringing is not uncommon for using low quality telescope for digiscoping or low quality tele-lens.




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