lpaul

Surely it cannot be a Rosy Minivet as it lacks a very obvious red wing bar?!  Or am In missing something.  It is obviously a first-winter, but don't first winter Rosy Minivets also have an obvious red wing (same for Long-tailed BTW!)?

lpaul

Yes, yellow wing bar (red on males).  Sorry, meant to type yellow, the point being that Rosy Minivets have obvious wing bars at rest which Ashy and Swinhoe's both lack.

Female Rosy as an example.

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/ros ... emale-foraging-tree

So on this basis, obviously not a Rosy.

However, clearly an odd bird, but I would think that this is a Swinhoe's showing yellow in the plumage for some reason (perhaps either a plumage abnormality or due to some Rosy Minivet genes).