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Yes, I saw a few of these in flocks of "normal" black-throated laughing thrushes around Yung Shue O in Sai Kung last winter.  There was a suggestion that they could be of the Hainan race monachus [actually lugens morph- see below!] - possible releases although they seemed to have popped up in several locations last year.

Dylan

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Sorry Geoff, not sure- I don't have my books here- I think the lugens is the right sub sp / race / morph.  Couldn't remember.  The Hainan trace is different looking at pictures online.  Sorry.  John Allcock also saw these birds in a couple of locations last year.  They have been photographed at Tai Po Kau headland.

Not sure how long they have been around.

Dylan

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subbuteo

FOund this from 2007 searching for lugens  http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/view ... ntable&tid=3922