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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  A pair of unusual birds in Discovery Bay?
        
(Message started by: Forrest FONG on May 16^th, 2003, 10:05pm)

Title: A pair of unusual birds in Discovery Bay?
Post by Forrest FONG on May 16^th, 2003, 10:05pm

Below is an email received by HKBWS for bird ID. Anyone please help! ???

Hello,

My name is Simon Roberts. I live in Discovery Bay, I have lived in HK for 20 years.

For the last 2 days I have seen a pair of unusual birds in the vicinity. Even my 9 year old daughter noticed them. They look like a type of wader, about 2 feet tall ,slim, white, with a yellow/orange neck and head,dark legs and feet, dark beak, straight,about 4 inches long.

The odd thing is they walked in grass land eating worms and bugs, they stayed in grassland for over 2 hours, very reluctant to fly they're behaviour was funny, craning the neck forward and back and shaking the head from side to side.

I've seen similar birds, though not the same on the sea side but not in grassland.
Any idea what they are?

Regards,

Simon Roberts

Title: Re: A pair of unusual birds in Discovery Bay?
Post by 鳥友Ａ on May 16^th, 2003, 10:58pm

I suspect they are probably cattle egrets in breeding plumage, although the "dark beak" should be yellow.

You could ask Simon to check whether they look like the birds in the following webpage, especially the third photo:

http://www.indiabirds.com/obc/Content/ImagePage.asp?page=4&Bird_ID=1108&Bird_Family_ID=116

Title: Re: A pair of unusual birds in Discovery Bay?
Post by FKW on May 16^th, 2003, 11:39pm

I also think that they should be Cattle Egret, however, I don't know why they have dark beaks. ???

Maybe Simon can take a look of the photos in the BBS to see whether they look like the Cattle Egret in the photos. :P

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=PhotoGallery;action=display;num=1051118285;start=0

Title: Re: A pair of unusual birds in Discovery Bay?
Post by simon on May 17^th, 2003, 4:54pm

:)

Thanks guys!
Yeah it does look like a cattle egret,
never seen them before in DB though!

Simon