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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  雲雀 Eurasian Skylark?
        
(Message started by: Little parrot on Oct 12^th, 2005, 9:14pm)

Title: 雲雀 Eurasian Skylark?
Post by Little parrot on Oct 12^th, 2005, 9:14pm

Help, pls!

Taken on 11/10/05 at Tai Lam Chung Country Park.

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/littleparrot/littleparrot_001.jpg
http://mysinamail.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/album/ualimage.cgi?egp=HF3GN3J3zJh_7@0nGG6rWJG8zdJ8n5Cz33G&al=1&ph=4&brev=0

Title: Re: Skylark?
Post by Gary on Oct 13^th, 2005, 3:17pm

This is definately a skylark.
However which skylark is it?
A useful character to separate Eurasian Skylark from Oriental Skylark is the primary projection.
Form this photo, the primary tip is clearly beyound tertials which match Eurasian Skylark. Thus I think it's Eurasian (or Northern) Skylark.

Gary

Title: Re: Skylark?
Post by HF_Cheung on Oct 13^th, 2005, 10:21pm

I think this is definitely an immature Skylark.  However, I am not confident on using the primary projection to separate Oriental to Eurasian Skylark.  For juveniles, that makes it even more difficult to me to separate them.  

HF Cheung

Title: Re: Skylark?
Post by Tony on Nov 2^nd, 2005, 12:35pm

I think it is a Eurasian Skylark too. However, why sometimes we can't see its feature projection on the head??
Is it a characteristic for its juvenile?