lwingkay

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jan 6 and 10, 2008pm
Swar 80ATS, 30x, Nikon P5100
ISO 200

mguy

Nice shots......., but is "crow", or perhaps a "thrush"

lwingkay

[quote:bd429a6538="mguy"]Nice shots......., but is "crow", or perhaps a "thrush"[/quote]

I checked the handbook by Dorling Kindersley and found that the thrush belongs to the Timalidae family whereas the crow the Corvidae in which the magpie also belongs. In the Corvidae, the passerines include in the handbook are the jay, nutcracker, jackdaw, chough and raven.

It takes a botanist?? [an expert] to tell the difference between the Corvidae and the Timalidae.

mguy

Hi,

Magpie belongs to crow family, but in the instance above you have a "Magpie" Robin.
'Magpie" relates I believe to "magpie type" in the same way that "Rufous-tailed Robin" refers to a Robin with a Rufous Tail etc,

I am not a botanist, but when classifying for HKBWS purposes would think it falls in "thrush" category.

Having said all that, I am quite happy to be wrong, but just thought it should be a Thrush.

All the best......... Guy

lwingkay

Having said all that, I am quite happy to be wrong, but just thought it should be a Thrush.

Absolutely not about you being wrong. Thank you for the suggestion. According to Britanica, the robin is also a kind of thrush [http://www.answers.com/robin?cat=health]. In fact, in HKBWS's corner for the thrush, there are quite a number of members who put photos of the oriental magpie robin as contribution for the thrush spieces. If you don't tell, I just will not bother about that. Good discussing and that adds to my knowledge about the labelling of birds.