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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Unsure Wagtail at Mai Po fish ponds?
        
(Message started by: Neil on Apr 12^th, 2006, 8:35pm)

Title: Unsure Wagtail at Mai Po fish ponds?
Post by Neil on Apr 12^th, 2006, 8:35pm

Photographed yesterday around the fish ponds.  At first I thought it was a Grey Wagtail and then checking the book changed my mind to Eastern Yellow Wagtail (race tschutschensis ). Can someone confirm?
Neil

Mai Po fish ponds,
Hong Kong,
China.
11/04/06

Olympus 7070wz and Swarovski STS80HD scope and Sw 30x eyepiece and DCA adapter
http://www.pbase.com/neilfif11/image/58551867.jpg

Title: Re: Unsure Wagtail at Mai Po fish ponds?
Post by Paul Leader on Apr 13^th, 2006, 11:35am

Whislt this is certainly a Yellow Wagtail, I would not like to ascribe it to subspecies. Tschtschensis (or simimilla as it used to be called in HK) is a blue-headed wagtail, and shows a very narrow supercilium. The other possibility taviana shows a broads, but yellow super, this bird fits neither!