Hung

18/10/2013 Tai Po Kau
Thank you

John Holmes

Looks good for Mountain Hawk Eagle (Nisaetus nipalensis) to me, and -if so- a VERY good record !

subbuteo

This picture is fairly similar.   Also this picture.  

Fantastic bird, well done!  Glad John knew what it was as I was at a loss.

Dylan

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ddavid

I was just wondering - the Tai Po Kau bird shows 6 primary "fingers". The picture in Subbuteo's first link above shows 7 primary "fingers".   

Is perhaps 6 primary "fingers" more indicative of Oriental Honey-buzzard?
See
http://orientalbirdimages.org/bi ... p;Bird_Family_ID=96

David

[ Last edited by ddavid at 19/10/2013 19:11 ]

tsheunglai

I incline to think it's a honey-buzzard.

First, the wing's not wide enough in mide part of wing.

The bill and head too small for a hawk eagle. The shape of the bill also typical of a buzzard's.

S L Tai

John Holmes

Dylan and Dave, - Thanks for the links.... I take your point, Dave, about the number of primary "fingers" and, Mr TAI I note your comments, too.

I think that the underparts on the bird in the photo look quite heavily barred on wings and tail, and the structure, to me, seems right for a larger bird.

But OHB is statistically more likely, if we have a shot showing the pair of bars near the base of the tail, that should nail the ID...

HUNG... do you have any more photos of this bird ?

Hung

I'm sorry that I only got 1 photo on it

The uncropped one

ajohn

I think if you zoom in on the photo in the first post, you can see the tail pattern of an Oriental Honey-buzzard, with bars towards the base and at the tip, and a large pale space between. Overall similar to this bird:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1