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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #1 on: Sep 23rd, 2003, 10:03am » |
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No photo display! Why?
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #3 on: Sep 23rd, 2003, 2:00pm » |
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Hi TN,
Please provide more hints to make the guess, e.g. date, location & sizes of the footprint.
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #4 on: Sep 23rd, 2003, 8:44pm » |
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Let me guess, Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #5 on: Sep 24th, 2003, 10:04am » |
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Hi, Forrest,
Thank you for your help to display the photos!
I was not on the locality when my friend took these photos beside the golf court at the old Kai Tai Airport runway. As told by him, there were a lot of "sea birds" in the vicinity. I forgot to ask him the actual size of the footpriints and the time of taking these photos. I shall inform you again once if my friend is contacted.
I note a photo of Red-necked Pharlarope taken by Louis Cheung at the page of
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/graphic/pharalop.html in which the bird may have the similar footprints. But I don't know whether this bird will make the footprints in a single file pattern as shown by the photos or not.
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #6 on: Sep 24th, 2003, 12:27pm » |
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Some information from my friend (not a bird watcher) who took these photos:
1)The length of each footprint was 5-6cm approxmately;
2) Date/time : 20 Sept 03 / 09:30;
3)Location: Kai Tak runway near the golf court, the stockpile of sand seemed to be used for some engineering works;
4)Some birds looked like Egrets were in the vicinity ( not a bird watcher's observation!).
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #7 on: Sep 25th, 2003, 9:14am » |
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嘩！初看這相片時，還以為是在蒙古的大漠或非洲的撒哈拉拍的。
原來只是在香港舊機場跑道上的建築地盤！真是一個非常大的沙堆。
我認為這些腳印可能是小白鷺等留下的，並不是Red-necked Pharlarope。
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #8 on: Sep 25th, 2003, 11:27am » |
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Earlybird,
謝謝你的回應! 但我有些不同看法.
小白鷺的足趾應是在比例上長很多, 而且應看到後趾印才是呢!
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #9 on: Sep 25th, 2003, 2:05pm » |
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Not too many choices in this habitat
They should be birds capable of walking on the ground (not jumping like sparrows).
Also, they are big.
So, I guess they may be Magpie, BN Starling, Crested Myna or Jungle Crow.
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #10 on: Sep 25th, 2003, 10:39pm » |
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This bird have to be a bird that walk, because if this bird jump, there should be two footprints mark in one spot, but ther is only one footprints in one spot at a time. In this kind of habitat, mostly should be a Little Egret, it can't be a red-necked phalarope because of the size.
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #11 on: Sep 27th, 2003, 2:32pm » |
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Yes, the bird walked.It walked for a long way up to the top. Which one in this habitat has this behaviour? Why it walked for quite a lone distance? For food? for nesting, or just for curiosity to see around? Early Bird and Falcon said that the footprints were left by a Small Egret but I am not persuaded to think the same because of the shape. The toes in the photos were rather short and meaty. I think that those from a Small Egret should be longer and slim, and also with the trace of the hind toe.
Our Webmaster and Mr X guessed that the footprints were made by some other birds. But I can't recognise these!
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #12 on: Sep 27th, 2003, 3:55pm » |
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Can't be waterbirds in particular egrets and herons.... as they usually don't walk on dry lands, except the breeding period when they collect nesting materials.
If I were waterbirds, I will fly from the bottom to the top.
Also, why this habitat attracts waterbirds ?........
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« Reply #13 on: Sep 27th, 2003, 3:56pm » |
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Can't be waterbirds in particular egrets and herons.... as they usually don't walk on dry lands, except the breeding period when they collect nesting materials.
If I were waterbirds, I will fly from the bottom to the top.
If I were ground feeding birds like magpie and crested myna, I may collect food during walking
Also, why this habitat attracts waterbirds ?........
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Re: Please identify the footprints
« Reply #14 on: Sep 30th, 2003, 11:19pm » |
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It may be a Crow, they also walk, it is possible to be a Large-billed Crow, but it also can fly very well, it should be a bird that walk, and don't fly well, if u look at the photos, the footprints shows that this bird have a short toe at the back, that make it look like a kind of Pratincole or a plover like bird footprints.
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