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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
        
(Message started by: bfspoonbill on Sep 28^th, 2006, 12:07am)

Title: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by bfspoonbill on Sep 28^th, 2006, 12:07am

是否青腳鷸呢？

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270124-s.jpg
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270126-as.jpg

應該不是吧！？腳好像橙黃色的。
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270117-as.jpg
http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270138-as.jpg

全部是今天米埔泥灘見到的。

Title: Re: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by bfspoonbill on Sep 29^th, 2006, 9:57am

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270126-as-circled.jpg

Sorry, but I am not familiar with shank, even though they are very common in MPNR.

Besides colour of leg (pale greenish and yellowish) as well as overall colour tone (greyish and brownish in the same noon sunlight condition - confusion by automatic white balance?), the circled parts also looked different.

Are they two different species? What are they?

Title: Re: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by miket on Sep 29^th, 2006, 9:57pm

Pics 1 and 2 are Common Greenshank - 3 and 4 look like a Grey-tailed Tattler to me.

Mike Turnbull

Title: Re: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by bfspoonbill on Sep 29^th, 2006, 11:36pm

More photos for the second one are attached here. Sorry, it's hard for me to match it to Grey-tailed Tattler in Birds of HK & S China book, because the colour looks grey in book. Can you suggest field marks?

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270116-as.jpg

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270141-as.jpg

Is this different?

http://everwell.dynu.com:3880/BirdWatching/Unknown-MPNR-20060927/P9270136-as.jpg

Title: Re: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by Paul Leader on Oct 3^rd, 2006, 4:01pm

Sorry Mike but I think 3 and 4 are a Redshank!

Title: Re: What kind(s) of shank are they? 是甚麼鷸呢？
Post by miket on Oct 3^rd, 2006, 6:27pm

Hi Paul,

You are right, I'm sure.

It was a rather hasty call.

The white-fringed, black-spotted tertials and other upperpart markings are typical of Redshank, and the tibia are too long for Tattlers.

Mike