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(Message started by: Sze on Feb 12^th, 2006, 1:04am)

Title: Bird ID Please!
Post by Sze on Feb 12^th, 2006, 1:04am

Is it a Streaked-breasted Scimitar Babbler （棕頸(金勾)嘴（眉鳥））?
Thanks a lot! :)

11/02/2006
Tai Po Kau 大埔滘

http://images4.fotop.net/albums2/hokszewong/RecordPhoto/TPK11Feb06_0016s.jpg

http://images4.fotop.net/albums2/hokszewong/RecordPhoto/TPK11Feb06_0017s.jpg

http://images4.fotop.net/albums2/hokszewong/RecordPhoto/TPK11Feb06_0018s.jpg

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by kumanfai on Feb 12^th, 2006, 1:43am

I am not sure if I saw the same bird in TPK about 2 weeks before.  Could I suggest the possibility of a white-browed laughing thrush?

Lun & Lynx reported the Rufous-Necked Scimitar Babbler earlier. Martin47 recently reported the Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush. They all share prominent white brows :)

Interesting.

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by i-free on Feb 12^th, 2006, 6:45am

i think sze is right..... right?

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by miket on Feb 12^th, 2006, 8:27am

But this is definitely Str.-br. Scimitar Babbler.

The first image, in which youcan see the decurved bill, makes that quite clear, as does the length and stunning prominence of the supercilium, the dark face, and the general coloration.

Mike Turnbull

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by Sze on Feb 12^th, 2006, 1:08pm

Thanks Mike, i-free and kumanfai!
Thanks a lot! :)

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by kumanfai on Feb 12^th, 2006, 11:58pm

Agreed. Thanks to all.

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by Gary on Feb 13^th, 2006, 8:41pm

The most interesting things of this picture is the bird collecting leaves. Is it building nest with leaf litter at Mid Feb.?

Gary

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by Sze on Feb 13^th, 2006, 8:44pm

on 02/13/06 at 20:41:08, Gary wrote:

The most interesting things of this picture is the bird collecting leaves. Is it building nest with leaf litter at Mid Feb.?

Gary

Oh! Really? :o :)

Title: Re: Bird ID Please!
Post by miket on Feb 13^th, 2006, 10:45pm

They've certainly been extremely noisy and active everywhere recently, so I wouldn't be surprised if courtship activity and indeed nest-building have begun.

Mike Turnbull