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(Message started by: Marcus on Mar 11th, 2003, 7:27pm)
Title: White-headed Stilt 白頭長腳鷸
Post by Marcus on Mar 11th, 2003, 7:27pm
White-headed Stilt 白頭長腳鷸
Mai Po 米埔 ??/5/2003
Is it a White-headed Stilt or Black-Winged Stilt?
The Photo took on May,2002 Mai Po.
Thanks for any information.
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL24/813554/inbox/82190.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/marcus/marcuswhstilt01.jpg
Title: Re: Is it a White-headed Stilt?
Post by gjcarey on Mar 12th, 2003, 9:15am
A very good and informative photo. Please look out for similar individuals and photograph them, as these are interesting birds.

We get a small number of birds passing through HK that show characters of the subspecies H.h. leucocephalus (hence, 'white-headed'). This taxon occurs in Philippines, Borneo, Java and areas south to Australia.

Although it is possible that these birds are 'white-headed stilts', it is also possible that they are part of the range of variation of the subspecies that occurs in east Asia, the nominate form.

All this is reported in the 'The Avifauna of HK'.


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