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(Message started by: KK Hui on Oct 14^th, 2004, 1:46pm)

Title: Swallow id ???
Post by KK Hui on Oct 14^th, 2004, 1:46pm

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/kkhui/131004_57x.jpg

MPNR
13/10/04

Not exactly a good photo I'm afraid. Hope you still can identify it with some certainty.
A swallow species of some sort? ::)

KK Hui ARPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Title: Re: Swallow id ???
Post by Yat-tung YU on Oct 14^th, 2004, 2:08pm

Dear K.K.

If you only look to those species of swallow, you would not find the answer! It is not a swallow, but it is a kind of wader!

Pale rufous underwing coverts and black line on face down from the eye are distinctive field marks.

Check the first few pages of the section of waders in the bird book. Also, check the colour plate of waders in flight.

Well capture!

Tung

Title: Re: Swallow id ???
Post by KK Hui on Oct 14^th, 2004, 3:31pm

Thanks for the hint, Tung!
I got it!

It's an Oriental Pratincole ... ::) ;D ::)

KK Hui ARPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Title: Re: Swallow id ???
Post by 648 on Oct 14^th, 2004, 5:28pm

kk,

一樣有個"燕"字啊！ ;)

飛

Title: Re: Swallow id ???
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Oct 14^th, 2004, 10:32pm

KK, did you remember that I told you that its Chinese name is 燕行鳥. Sorry for forgetting the English name at that moment.

I did take a same shot below at the moment.... ::)

http://www.danielckchan.com/b20040169.jpg