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(Message started by: Marcus on Oct 4^th, 2004, 1:01pm)

Title: ID again please,Thank you
Post by Marcus on Oct 4^th, 2004, 1:01pm

Could anyone tell me the ID pls? Thanks!
2.10.2004 Mei Po

???
http://pic10.picturetrail.com/VOL343/2006211/inbox/16761.jpg

Marcus

Title: Re: ID again please,Thank you
Post by M Kilburn on Oct 4^th, 2004, 10:13pm

Hi Marcus

This si aan Asian Brown Fycatcher (probably a juvenile - hence the markings on the breast)

How can you tell? The bill is very broad and pale at the base (the scientific name is Muscicapa latirostris - latirostris means broad-billed)

Cheers
Mike K

Title: Re: ID again please,Thank you
Post by Marcus on Oct 5^th, 2004, 8:50am

:P Juvenile??!!

Thanks again, Mike!
Marcus.

Title: Re: ID again please,Thank you
Post by Paul Leader on Oct 5^th, 2004, 9:21am

No. not a juvenile which would be very spotty on the upperparts, but a first winter. I.e. a bird that has undertaken a body moult from juvenile plumage into an adult like plumage but has retained juvenile greater coverts.