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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Little Curlew? 
        
(Message started by: me_domchan on Apr 26^th, 2005, 1:23pm)

Title: Little Curlew?
Post by me_domchan on Apr 26^th, 2005, 1:23pm

Boardwalk
24/4/05
DSLR

Is this a little curlew?
http://images2.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/Whimbrel_53863_MPNR050424s.jpg

I think this is the same one
http://images2.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/L_curlew_350D_01443_MPNR050424.jpg

My observations(or...illusions?! ;D) :
1. It was flying alone amd staying with avocets instead of a group of whimbrel there.
2. The shorter bill.
3. The eyestrip somehow "seems" to be emerged from below eye but not straight through.

Title: Re: Little Curlew?
Post by Yat-tung YU on Apr 26^th, 2005, 8:58pm

The pictures show different birds. They are different in bill length.

The first one is a Whimbrel and the second one is a Little Curlew.

Title: Re: Little Curlew?
Post by me_domchan on Apr 26^th, 2005, 9:40pm

Thx TUNG!

I though #1 is little curlew because of the eye strip ... ;D
but I was wrong...ha..ha