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[Hong Kong] ID please

Certainly not a Kestrel, and it looks too skinny for Saker to me.

There is some discussion about this bird possibly being a juvenile Barbary Falcon which is sometimes split from Peregrine.

Nice pix!

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Mike
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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Many thanks for these excellent additional photos.

They strengthen my view that this is not a Saker - the underwing looks pretty uniformly checkered with these additional shots and the jizz looks even less imposing. Saker is a real brute with a similar jizz to Pomarine Skua - muscular and heavy around the shoulders and neck - and with a sense of latent power. This bird almost looks slim enough to be an Amur Falcon in some shots.

I have been caught out before by brown juvenile Peregrine before at Mai Po a few years ago, and this reminds me of that that bird.

Cheers
Mike
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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