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[Hong Kong] Please help ID

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1# A A A Post at 8/08/2014 21:55  Show author

Please help ID

Please help ID.



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2# A A A Post at 9/08/2014 22:01  Show author

Mai Po bird for ID

I'm not 100 % sure, but this could be an "exotic" such as Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes afer), an African species.

There were mid-summer records in HK of escaped or released Yellow-crowned Bishops in the 1980s, according to the Avifauna of Hong Kong.
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Original posted by John Holmes at 9/08/2014 22:01
I'm not 100 % sure, but this could be an "exotic" such as Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes afer), an African species.

There were mid-summer records in HK of escaped or released Yellow-crowned Bishops ...
John,

Thanks for your ID!

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