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(Message started by: Neil on Mar 6^th, 2006, 9:33pm)

Title: unknown on Lamma
Post by Neil on Mar 6^th, 2006, 9:33pm

Photographed on Lamma today. It behaved like a Drongo. What is it? Neil.

Lamma Island,
Hong Kong,
China.

06/03/06

Nikon D2x plus Nikon 300/2.8 AFS (crop mode)

http://www.pbase.com/neilfif11/image/56899960.jpg

Title: Re: unknown on Lamma
Post by bond on Mar 6^th, 2006, 9:40pm

It is a Verditer Flycatcher for me

Nice photo! :)

Title: Re: unknown on Lamma
Post by miket on Mar 6^th, 2006, 9:44pm

It's a Verditer Flycatcher, Neil, a female, I think, as the lores only look slightly darker than the surrounding area.

Always a nice bird to see, and there don't seem to have been very many this winter.

Mike Turnbull

Title: Re: unknown on Lamma
Post by Andrew on Mar 7^th, 2006, 11:16am

The comment about behaving like a Drongo is interesting. I photographed VF at Ho Chung not long ago and the bird was regularly seen in the company of the Hair-crested Drongos. Maybe there is some sort of symbiotic relationship between them.