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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Please help identify
        
(Message started by: cywong on Sep 28^th, 2003, 7:50pm)

Title: Please help identify
Post by cywong on Sep 28^th, 2003, 7:50pm

Would experienced birders please help identify these three black birds? All three photos were taken in Kenya in September 2003.
http://www.geocities.com/cywong5555/64.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/cywong/cywongxxx03.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/cywong5555/65.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/cywong/cywongxxx04.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/cywong5555/66.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/cywong/cywongxxx05.jpg

Title: Re: Please help identify
Post by Falcon on Sep 30^th, 2003, 11:07pm

They should be a kind of Starlings, but i duno what species.

Title: Re: Please help identify
Post by PWMK on Sep 30^th, 2003, 11:31pm

It could be a female SOOTY CHAT, A storky, rather short-tailed dark chat of the Mara/Serengeti grassland. Hope this is correct!

Info - Birds of Kenya & Northern Tanzania.

PWMK ::)

Title: Re: Please help identify
Post by cywong on Oct 6^th, 2003, 7:39am

Thank you very much.