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Starling ID please

Starling ID please

10.11.2009  Kowloon park
What kind of starling it is?? Daurian ??
thank you



I am just an inexperienced birder/ birdwatcher/ twitcher/ photographer with no long lens.

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Yes, it looks like a Daurian (Purple-backed) Starling - dark eye, dark back and extensive white in the scapulars, greater coverts and secondary bases

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thank you John
I am just an inexperienced birder/ birdwatcher/ twitcher/ photographer with no long lens.

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A very good record for an urban area , and rather late too - wish I'd seen it

Cheers
Mike
Mike KilburnVice Chairman, HKBWSChairman, Conservation Committee

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