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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Birding Reports & Tips 觀鳥報告及心得 >>  Chestnut Bunting at Ng Tung Chai
        
(Message started by: Mike_Kilburn on Dec 12^th, 2003, 9:45am)

Title: Chestnut Bunting at Ng Tung Chai
Post by Mike_Kilburn on Dec 12^th, 2003, 9:45am

This morning between 0730 and 0840 the following bird were Recorded between Ng Tung Chai Village and the Man Duk Yuen Temple:

Chestnut Bunting (winter male)
Daurian Redstart (male)
Mountain Bush Warbler ( a MUCH better name than Brownish Flanked Bush Warbler) - in low bamboo near the large old grave
Lesser Shortwing - 2 singing
Red-flanked Bluetail (MUCH better name than orange -flankedBush Robin)
Mountain Tailorbird - 1 singing
Asian Stubtail - 1 heard
Grey Treepie - one heard

Mike

Title: Re: Chestnut Bunting at Ng Tung Chai
Post by Mike Turnbull on Dec 13^th, 2003, 12:24am

Mike K. et al.,

Speaking personally, I fully agree that Mountain Bush Warbler is a much finer sounding English name for Cettia fortipes than the horribly limply descriptive "Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler", but the latter is the English name used in Carey et al. 2001, whereas Red-flanked Bluetail is in fact still referred to "officially" as Red-flanked Bluetail.

My plea on English vernacular names is simply for the universal use of those in the latest edition of the checklist, the aim simply being the reduction of confusion and the avoidance of the need to add in scientific names.

Mike Turnbull

Title: Re: Chestnut Bunting at Ng Tung Chai
Post by Mike_Kilburn on Dec 16^th, 2003, 11:54pm

Hi Mike

I understand your point but some of these names are too dreadful for words!

To avoid confusion i wil try to give correct names as an alternative but I would dearly love to see someof the old names returned - fashions change so often that I have a fair chance of success give or take 20 or 30 years of bloodymindedness.

It could have ben worse - I could have gone for Strong -footed Bush Warbler!

Mike K