msamuel

24/10/2011

1. 苍鹭/Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)


2. 草鹭/Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)


3. 大白鹭/Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)


4. 中白鹭/Intermediate Egret (Egretta intermedia)


5. 黑鸢/Black Kite (Milvus migrans)


6. 白腹鹞/Eastern Marsh Harrier (Circus spilonotus)


7. 普通鵟/Common Buzzard (Buteo japonicus)


8. 水雉/Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)


9. 矶鹬/Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)


10. 灰喜鹊/Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)


11. 白颈鸦/Collared Crow (Corvus torquatus) (on the right)


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[ Last edited by msamuel at 27/10/2011 22:13 ]

msamuel

白頭麻鷹放大照，食緊魚


位置在入閘後的右手面，幾多號塘我就搞5清。
加張便便和起飛相比你研究。便便是綠色的，所以不是齋食魚的

msamuel

順道一提，今期(和上期)通訊內的麻鷹文章精彩，繼續努力

msamuel

John, thank you for updating me.  I was not aware of that before.

An immediate question comes to my mind.  What should it be called in Chinese?  Still 普通鵟 (meaning common buzzard in English) or 東方鵟 (meaning eastern buzzard in English)?  When we edited the book  “A Handbook of Hong Kong Terrestrial Birds” (to be published), we had similar puzzle about Chinese bird names.

If we call “Buteo japonicas” Eastern Buzzard in English here in Hong Kong, there is no point to call it 普通鵟 in Chinese (meaning common buzzard in English) here in Hong Kong.  It does not make much sense for English name of a bird meaning one thing and Chinese name meaning another.  Further, how should we call “Buteo buteo” seen in Europe while on vacation, Common Buzzard?  It is not common to us!  Would it be better to be called Western Buzzard?  If English names are local and only the scientific/Latin names are universally unique, what about calling “Buteo japonicas” Common Buzzard here then?

In fact, I don’t like the idea of calling birds “Common”, or even more “Eastern” or “Western”.   These words have a relative sense and sometimes create unnecessary confusion.  Common Starling is an example.  It is not the common starling in Hong Kong.  Great Egret we see here is Eastern Great Egret, while Osprey is Western Osprey!

Samuel