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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
        
(Message started by: Kinni on Aug 16^th, 2006, 9:44pm)

Title: birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
Post by Kinni on Aug 16^th, 2006, 9:44pm

Niijima,Japan
05/08/2006
Is it a Sparrow?
http://i.pbase.com/o4/13/629513/1/65254603.UcRp8qtK.D20_3160.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/13/629513/1/65254608.XX3PMan3.D20_3169.jpg

Title: Re: birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
Post by Gary on Aug 17^th, 2006, 2:47pm

It's a bunting,
probably a meadow bunting.

Gary

Title: Re: birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
Post by Kinni on Aug 17^th, 2006, 8:23pm

Thank you, Gary

Title: Re: birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
Post by Japanbirder on Aug 20^th, 2006, 1:16am

No, I don't think this is a Meadow Bunting.

I think it is a 1st winter Chestnut-eared Bunting. It appears to have some chestnut on the lores, whearas a female or immature Meadow Bunting would have a more greyish face with more outstanding black super and crown stripe.

It is a relatively common summer visitor to upland boggy areas of grassland in Japan.

Sean Minns
Hiroshima

Title: Re: birds in Japan , pls help ID--4
Post by Kinni on Aug 26^th, 2006, 12:33am

on 08/20/06 at 01:16:34, Japanbirder wrote:

No, I don't think this is a Meadow Bunting.  

I think it is a 1st winter Chestnut-eared Bunting.  It appears to have some chestnut on the lores, whearas a female or immature Meadow Bunting would have a more greyish face with more outstanding black super and crown stripe.

It is a relatively common summer visitor to upland boggy areas of grassland in Japan.

Sean Minns
Hiroshima

Japanbirder,
Thank you for your information, yes, I shot it at a football playground in a school.