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(Message started by: kwan on Oct 9^th, 2003, 7:36pm)

Title: Dark-sided Flycatcher 烏鶲
Post by kwan on Oct 9^th, 2003, 7:36pm

368 Dark-sided Flycatcher 烏鶲
Tai Po Kau 大埔滘
09/10/2003
Digiscoping
http://a2.cpimg.com/image/6E/B9/24448622-d326-01BA0167-.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/kwan/kwansflycatcher01.jpg

Title: Re: Sooty Flycatcher
Post by cywong on Oct 9^th, 2003, 8:53pm

Very nice shot. :D It is very difficult to photograph forest birds by digiscoping.  

Title: Re: Sooty Flycatcher ??
Post by Mike Kilburn on Oct 10^th, 2003, 9:37am

Hi Kwan

Very nice picture, but I think it is a Brown Flycatcher.

Why?

The angle of you photo is very helpful in showing the underside of the bill is yellow and rather broad at the base.

(you may know that the scientific name of Brown Flycatcher - latirostris - means "broad bill"!)

Also the sides of the breast are white with only faint streaks, not much darker or(occasionally with broad streaks) as they should be on Sooty Flycatcher.

Cheers

Mike

Title: Re: Sooty Flycatcher 烏鶲
Post by kwan on Oct 10^th, 2003, 1:28pm

Hi Mike,

Another image which explain why I consider as a Sooty Flycatcher.

The tiny white spots on the upper part of the body including head. The wing bar is tinted golden color. The overall length of the wing. And overall plumage is genrally darker.

Please advise your thoughts and it will be very useful.

tks,
nick
http://a2.cpimg.com/image/16/AE/24480022-7880-01480150-.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/kwan/kwanbbflyscatcher02.jpg
Tai Po Kau 大埔滘
09/10/2003
Digiscoping

Title: Re: Sooty Flycatcher 烏鶲
Post by Apache Lau+Joanna Lam on Oct 10^th, 2003, 2:55pm

Hi all,

Let me try to make one additional ID of this is a Sooty la !!!!
The primary projection is longer than the tertials ( refer to the posting by KK Hui and CK Chan are the good demons for this ID).

Pls comment haha !!!!

Apache