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Little parrot
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Unidentified bird
« on: Feb 11th, 2004, 9:19pm » |
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Any idea on what is it?
Images captured from DV.
Taken on 10/2/04 at Chung Mei.
Size about 6 inches.
Thanks.
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #1 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 11:31pm » |
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This one should be a Lesser Shortwing.  maybe it is the same bird i saw the other day!! 
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Little parrot
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #2 on: Feb 12th, 2004, 9:40pm » |
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The tail of the bird look a bit longer to me 
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #3 on: Feb 13th, 2004, 10:36am » |
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I can't see the images...
Does anybody else have this problem?
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S  o do I
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A message "the link is not available" is return. I do not know whether there is something wrong with my computer or the server.
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #8 on: Feb 13th, 2004, 10:25pm » |
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do a copy and paste the link to your browser url field and don't click the link directly.
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #10 on: Feb 13th, 2004, 10:47pm » |
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You can see the white browed and the white throut.
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Mike Turnbull
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This is not a Lesser Shortwing. The tail is too long and the coloration and patterning of the plumage looks wrong. Take a look at Peter Wong's pictures from Tai Po Kau posted here on 22 Jan.
I'm really not sure what it actually is however, though Siberian Rubythroat (female) seems a possibility.
Suggest you look closely at the rest of your video with this possibility in mind.
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #12 on: Feb 15th, 2004, 9:01pm » |
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I did see Peter's master piece of the Lesser Shortwing a couple of weeks ago. I am not sure if the bird we saw in Chungmei several days ago was exactly the one shown here. We saw it in a dark bush along with two RF Bluetails. It was already dusk. We had a end on glimpse of the bird, a plump and cute bird with whitish throat and faint white brow just like the one illustrated by Peter previously. The wing and tail also looked a bit awkwardly short too. I do agree that the tail of the bird shown here seems a bit too long for Lesser Shortwing but otherwise Lesser Shortwing seems somewhat possible. This again illustrated the complexity of bird identification in the field, especially when involving female birds and juvenile birds.
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Re: Unidentified bird
« Reply #13 on: Feb 15th, 2004, 9:59pm » |
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Thanks all for the help and advise.
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Mike Turnbull
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Still don't think it really looks like a Lesser Shortwing (why does it appear to have lines on the crown?). Also agree with your point on ID difficulties, TH, but think it illustrates the difficulties of identifying some birds from pictures, rather than in the field - for example I'm now not 100% certain that what I thought was the tail actually is the tail - though I still think it is!
Btw, I do think you probably saw a Lesser Shortwing at Chung Mei, but am not sure this is a photo of it - but it may be!.
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