kmatthew

In reply to Paul on earlier thread on the Brides Pool post, yes I think you are right it's probably not an Asian Brown but honestly that's the closest thing that I can match with this! The lack of any eye-ring also bugs me...Legs colour, bill colouration and back colours kind of match EXCEPT for the huge eyes with no eye-rings, dark ear coverts and what seems to be faint eyebrows? Is it just me or is does this bird have a forked tail? Look at the first photo where the two outer tail feather project below the branch.

kmatthew

I went and saw the mystery bird today, it was just around the Bride's Pool picnic area next to the speed camera, it was hawking for insects in the area but was mobbed by three Chinese Bulbuls constantly. It sure looked weird, behaviour wise it really seems like a normal flycatcher, but feathers are in very poor condition, only the outer tail feathers are "intact", some in the middle have fallen out hence giving it the "forked" tail. It does cocks up it's tail quite often when perched. Most of all, it made a call and I recorded it with my iphone, not sure how to upload the sound file here, but I matched it with an Asian Brown Flycatcher on Xeno-Canto:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds ... e_c_140929b_sub.mp3

Pretty much 95% match, so perhaps it really is an Asian Brown? but yet again, the call of Asian Brown is not that distinctive and there could be other species out there that sounds similar? Got some photographs I can post later.

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kmatthew

Here are a few of mine:







last shot shows a fairly broad bill base.