brendank

In an effort to be confused by every species of HK accipiter, I managed to find this bird today. I had this bird perched at Mai Po at a distance.  Then one half hour I had this bird or maybe a different bird perched in the area much closer to me.  I think the two pictures are the same bird but I am not even sure of that.  I suppose it could just be a Besra but the supercilium looks so strong in the first the picture and the dark bands seem very thin in the first picture.

What do the raptor experts think?

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brendank

Thanks, Mike and Paul.  That is a good point regarding the primary projections on this bird.  They are too short for Japanese.