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(Message started by: carmen on Jan 30^th, 2004, 9:06pm)

Title: Brown Shrike 紅尾伯勞
Post by carmen on Jan 30^th, 2004, 9:06pm

278 Brown Shrike 紅尾伯勞
Penfold Park, Sha Tin 沙田彭福公園
30/1/2004
Zeiss Diascope 85T
+ Nikon CP4500
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=74866
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carmen/carmenbshrike01.jpg

What a foggy day~ :)
and i don't like the background,
it is TOO plain. :P

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by john on Jan 30^th, 2004, 9:09pm

It looks like a Brown Shrike.

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by carmen on Jan 30^th, 2004, 9:12pm

Thanks~ :)
i thought about it too but its flank is a bit brown. :-/

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by carmen on Jan 30^th, 2004, 9:39pm

Here is the back.  ::)
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=74880
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carmen/carmen026.jpg

30/1/2004
Penfold Park, Sha Tin 沙田彭福公園

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by carmen on Jan 30^th, 2004, 11:16pm

john,
yeah! it SHOULD be brown shrike~ ::) :-*
thank you. :)
carmen

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by Paul Leader on Feb 2^nd, 2004, 12:27pm

It is indeed a Brown Shrike, and adult male of the race lucionensis, hence the rich colour of the flanks.

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by gjcarey on Feb 2^nd, 2004, 2:17pm

We get small numbers of Brown Shrikes in the winter in HK. There was also one at Nam Sang Wai recently.

Interestingly, they occur in very different habitat than is generally the case in spring and autumn when the highest numbers are present. In winter, they occur in 'park-like' habitats, areas of scattered bushes and trees with open ground between. On migration, they occur in a wide variety of habitats.

Geoff

Title: Re: 棕背伯勞
Post by Alvin on Feb 2^nd, 2004, 9:36pm

Just want to add one more to this report, since one solitary Brown Shrike had been observed to have stayed in the same place in Tat Tung Road (Tung Chung, to the direction of the pier) for about 4 weeks, though disappeared recently.

That was a very interesting observation about a species which holds a regular territory. The habitat inhabited by the Brown Shrike was a small grassland strip next to a highway with moderate traffic load. Despite the irregular disturbance imposed by the traffics and passagers, the Brown Shrike could be found staying in the same area nearly during every visit. :D

Some other common species could also been found there, e.g. Yellow-bellied Prinia and Dusky Warbler. Indeed common but you can get very close to them ;D

While the construction work of cable car station is getting started in Lantau, I wish most of the valuable yet vulnerable habitats in Lantau can remain unharmed.