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(Message started by: Anton on Dec 7th, 2005, 1:57am)
Title: Bird ID Please~
Post by Anton on Dec 7th, 2005, 1:57am
What kind of wagtail is this?  Thanks.... ???


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Kam Tin  錦田
30/11/2005
Dynax 7D + Tamron 200-500 mm

Anton
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by Sze on Dec 7th, 2005, 2:00am
白鶺鴒！ White Wagtail ! ;D
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by Katherine on Dec 8th, 2005, 8:57am
It looks like a Citrine Wagtail !?
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by little_dolphin on Dec 8th, 2005, 11:21am
But citrine wagtails have yellow underparts. Besides, only white wagtails have the black patch on their breasts.

I think this is a juvenile bird of the ocularis subspecies of white wagtail (scientific name Motacilla alba ocularis) because of the black eyestripe without white primaries.

By the way, juvenile white wagtails may have some weird colours like yellow.
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by Anton on Dec 9th, 2005, 1:50am

on 12/08/05 at 11:21:43, little_dolphin wrote:
But citrine wagtails have yellow underparts. Besides, only white wagtails have the black patch on their breasts.

I think this is a juvenile bird of the ocularis subspecies of white wagtail (scientific name Motacilla alba ocularis) because of the black eyestripe without white primaries.

By the way, juvenile white wagtails may have some weird colours like yellow.


I also think that was a white wagtail ocularis because of the black patch on its breast......but I am not too sure since there was some yellow colour on its face........
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by Gary on Dec 9th, 2005, 3:15pm
I think it's a first-winter female White Wagtail sub-species ocularis.
Some female White Wagtail show a buffy brows and chin in winter plumage.
It's not a citrine wagtail as the birds show a dark eye stripe and upper breast patch.
:)

Gary
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by zep on Dec 9th, 2005, 8:59pm
This is very similar to the thread on p. 5 discussing Anonymous Guy's picture.  The arguments are given there for white wagtail - the black breast patch is diagnostic, in spite of the rather atypical yellow colour.
Title: Re: Bird ID Please~
Post by Anton on Dec 9th, 2005, 11:40pm
OK~ I see~ Thank you all~!!  ;)


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