hetta

The bird called like a Starling and looked like a juvenile.  Please kindly help ID, thanks.

05 Mar 2007 at Tseung Kwan O.

hetta

One more picture.

yjoe

From his yellow eye and black tail with white edge,
I guess ... Myna, Common Myna.

Oh! Etta h, long time no see lar.

hetta

Hello Joe, thanks for the help indeed!  

John Holmes

Hi Etta and Joe,

From the shape of the bare skin around the eye, and the pattern of the tail, I'm confident the dark bird is a juvenile Black-collared Starling.

Regards
John

hetta

Hello John,

Thanks for the identification, this helps.    

I've thought about the possibility of this bird was a Starling juvenile.  And I wondered would that be two plumage phases of the Black-collared Starling juvenile? I'd only seen the beige head colour plumage of the Black-collared Starling juvenile before.

Another fact was I heard this bird called like a Starling when it flew away.  If this were a Common Myna, could it imitate the call of a Starling or I'd heard wrong.