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Luk Chun Ki
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"The Morning of Black-collared Starling"
« on: Oct 30th, 2002, 4:57pm » |
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I've found today (30-10-2002) a special day.
I called it "The Morning of Black-collared Starling".
It was rainy this morning 9:30pm.
The trees near Mong Kok Stadium were full of Black-necked Starlings.
I estimated there were 4 dozens within 100m x 100m area.
They're in groups on trees tops. The most crowded one has 13 on a single branch!
Some were on the grass pitch.
Those on tree tops were not feeding nor mating, just singing in the rain!
I've never heard or seen so many Black-necked Starlings flocked together in Mong Kok, usually two to four at most.
It must be their special day.
I'm a novice, anyone can give me any idea why they're gathering.
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B-necked Starling No. 5
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Re: "The Morning of Black-necked Starling"
« Reply #1 on: Oct 30th, 2002, 6:37pm » |
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Hello Luk:
I am one of my starlin gang who sang the loudest this morning, Gar-lee! Gar-lee-gar! I saw you staring at us this morning, looking wondered. You know, we have no umbrella and thick tree for sheltering is not easy to find around there. Therefore, we need to get crowded at some 'best' branches. We were communicating with each other while it was raining:
1. complaining each other about not enough space to shed off rain water from body. 
2. complaining why it was raining in autumn time that made us totally wet. 
3. asking each other where to find delicious things after rain. 
4. laughing at our poor peers at grass pitch who could not find shelter. 
5. laughing at the humans who were playing very bad at the stadium. 
6. laughing at each other silly wet look! 
7. Expressing dissatisfaction to humans who were watching our silly wet look!
*Just for fun, I hope you don't mind* 
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Re: "The Morning of Black-necked Starling"
« Reply #2 on: Nov 8th, 2002, 9:03pm » |
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 Could they be migrants in transit?
Two years ago in December I saw a flock of about 100 birds at the ex-landfill at Lam Tin in the evening, coming in to roost for the night. They were so numerous and noisy that the resident magpies had to make way for them. They were not seen or heard on the next day.
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