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(Message started by: bfspoonbill on Oct 11^th, 2003, 6:09pm)

Title: Please help to ID
Post by bfspoonbill on Oct 11^th, 2003, 6:09pm

Found in China Travel Agent's leaflet about a tour to MaiPo NR. It has white head and grey body.

What is its name?

It does not look as slim as a wagtail. Its beak is apparently thicker than normal forest bird. It body is fat, as for shrike. But surely its beak shape and head size does not fit a shrike. It head is nearly white!

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/Birdwatching/CT_Leaflet.jpg

Title: Re: Please help to ID
Post by Mike Kilburn on Oct 11^th, 2003, 7:58pm

Hi bfspoonbill

This is an Azure Tit

the nearest Place to HOng Kong to see this bird is in the Tian Shan mountains in Central Xinjiang province several thousand miles from here!

It would really be a huge surprise to see this Mai Po!

Mike

Title: Re: Please help to ID
Post by bfspoonbill on Oct 12^th, 2003, 7:59am

Thanks, Mike.

I did check "A Field Guide to the Birds of China" before posting. "Tit" did match better for the appearance. Asure Tit did have the the line patterns behind the eye and others, although not exactly the same as shown on the book. But I told myself that that bird had to be found in Hong Kong. So, I did not consider it, based on the coverage areas mentioned. That's why I tried to ask whether there was such a bird in HK. Anyway, this bird ID assumption (and limitation) should be avoided.

China Travel Agent is using a bird that should only be found in extreme northern part of China or even inside the snowy Siberria. Hope visitors from the northern teritories will not try to find this kind in the MaiPo NR eco-tour held by China Travel Agent.