brendank

At the time I genuinely believed there was one Silver-backed Needletail yet now that I look at my photos I start to doubt that. The photos I had of the purported Silver-backed Needletail weren't so clear. I agree the amount of white on the one bird appears restricted but looking through the photos on orientalbird club of Silver-backed the throats all seem more grey than this bird. I'm not sure how much white Silver-backed can show on the throat and I suppose there is some variability. Maybe this is within the range of variability?

brendank

It seems in the pbase photo the throat is still quite grey whereas in the photo above it still looks quite white to me. This is the photo I got of the purported Silver-backed Needletail.

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16/04/2012 10:25

Below is a photo of a White-throated Needletail from the birds of Korea website which seems to have a less extensively white throat. I would say our bird matches that reasonably well.

brendank

On this page if you scroll down a bit.

http://www.birdskorea.org/Birds/ ... dnews-2010-10.shtml