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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Black-capped Kingfisher 藍翡翠
        
(Message started by: bfspoonbill on Mar 1^st, 2004, 2:09pm)

Title: Black-capped Kingfisher 藍翡翠
Post by bfspoonbill on Mar 1^st, 2004, 2:09pm

What could it be? A bird?! But I cannot link it up with my little memory of bird, especially white collar. Its "wings" looked too flat. Right?

Photo was taken at about 1pm on 18/2/2004 inside Kowloon Park.
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/P2180132-a.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/bfspoonbill/bfs04.jpg
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/P2180132-b.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/bfspoonbill/bfs05.jpg

It disappeared after watching for a while.

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by shum ting wing on Mar 1^st, 2004, 2:55pm

Blue Magpie ???

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by Falcon on Mar 1^st, 2004, 5:51pm

I would say this one is some kind of escaped bird....not really sure about this...=.+"...

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by pan on Mar 1^st, 2004, 6:55pm

Koel
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Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by Falcon on Mar 1^st, 2004, 11:15pm

I think it looks some thing like a dove...really can't see it well with it's head hiding under it's wings...=__________+"

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by Karl on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 12:18am

look like a black-capped kingfisher, what do u think?

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by Koel_Ko on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 12:41am

It would be a male Koel in my opinion, as the the back and head are a homogenous glossy blue-black and the head is rather small in proportion to the large body. Should it have a broad, long tail, then it's quite sure it's a Koel :D

Title: Re: Any help?!
Post by bfspoonbill on Mar 4^th, 2004, 11:46am

Thanks to you all for guessing. We saw it soon after entering the HaiPhone Road entrance. The "UFO" stood on a branch inside trees shown in the following map (location):
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/HaiPhong.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/bfspoonbill/bfs06.jpg

Size : much larger than a (spotted) dove, more or less the size of a mature mappie. So, it cannot be a kingfisher.

Color : no significant distortion found from the 10X optical plus 4X digital image. So, what kind of bird will have such a light pale blue colour? I think Koel should not be that light in colour, especially when the light condition inside tree shadows should be dimmer.

White collar : Will there be white collar (or better "band") at the back of a blue mappie? I only saw blue mappie once and the book reference of it did not show white "band".

Tail : It was apparent that that "UFO" had a long tail. Right?

Anyway, thanks for the brainstorming ideas.