Thank you HKBWS for adminstering a forum for all levels of bird-watchers and the valuable opinions from experts and experienced birders in this thread are appreciated.
Although I have no bad feeling for some of the comments, I feel guilty of misidentifying a stoneshat as snowy-browed flycatcher. In fact, the bird seems different to those stonechats I have watched before so that I was curious to find out what it may be. Sometimes, it is quite difficult to differentiate varieties of birds even reading the materials of reference books.
I agree that bird identification is a learning process and it does broaden and deepen my knowledge, but
I think bird idenification is neither the only nor the ultimate goal of bird watching.
Happy bird watching.
[ Last edited by quaali at 23/01/2013 13:17 ]
