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(Message started by: ckn on Aug 21st, 2006, 5:52pm)
Title: Please help ID. Common Redshank?
Post by ckn on Aug 21st, 2006, 5:52pm
Please help ID the juvenile bird.

Is it a Common Redshank or Long-billed Dowitcher?

20/8/2006
Mai Po
D200 + 300/2.8 + 1.7X

Please advise. Thanks.

http://www.rphotobase.com/albums/userpics/14599/Resize%20of%20_CKN6310.JPG
Title: Re: Please help ID
Post by miket on Aug 21st, 2006, 9:30pm
It's a Common Redshank. Although the upper-tail, upper-tail covert and rear flank markings vaguely resemble a Dowitcher's, those are the only similarities. Long-billed Dowitchers have shorter, greenish legs and a longer bill  (also greenish at the base), plus a longer clearer supercilium, for example.

Mike Turnbull.
Title: Re: Please help ID
Post by ckn on Aug 21st, 2006, 10:20pm
Thank you Mike.  ;)

ckn


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