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Commom Buzzard ? Please help.

Commom Buzzard ? Please help.

Please help me  ID it.

15/1/2007
Tsim Bei Tsui 尖鼻咀

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It looks like an Eastern Marsh Harrier, female or possibly Pied Harrier (pale leading edge to wing and pale underwing?) but needs an expert to id.

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15/1/2007
Tsim Bei Tsui 尖鼻咀

Add 2 more photos of the same bird.
And I saw it's white rump when it flew.
Hope the information can help for id.



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It's a female Pied Harrier. Note faint underwing barrings and silvery grey upperwing, esp secondaries, and visible on the bird at perch and closed wing.

Female Eastern Marsh Harrier should be considered, as wgeoff pointed out, but can be excluded because underwing barrings will be more obvious and upperwing on secondaries will be dark brown.  Also the rump is barred pale, as opposed to very outsandingly white in female Pied.

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