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(Message started by: stanley_fok on Dec 8^th, 2002, 6:14pm)

Title: Eurasian Skylark 雲雀 A.a.japonica
Post by stanley_fok on Dec 8^th, 2002, 6:14pm

247 Eurasian Skylark 雲雀 A.a.japonica
Long Valley 塱原
??/11,12/2002
Can anyone help to confirm if he/she is Northern Skylark?
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/stanleyfok/stanleyfoklark01.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/stanleyfok/stanleyfoklark02.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/stanleyfok/stanleyfoklark03.jpg

Title: Re: Northern Skylark?
Post by stanley_fok on Dec 8^th, 2002, 6:16pm

Photos taken in Long Valley around Dec/Nov 1999.

Stanley FOK

Title: Re: Northern Skylark? 雲雀?
Post by Paul Leader on Dec 12^th, 2002, 5:03pm

This is one of the very interesting larks at Long Valley in 1999. I considered these to be Northern Skylarks based on structure (long primary projection and tail) and also the white outer tail feathers and tips to the secondaries. However, the overall pluamge tones are quite unlike all previous Northern Skylarks I have seen, and fit Oriental better. However, the birds were very similar to photographs of the race japonica of Northern Skylark which is treated by some authorities as a distinct species Japanese Skylark. I consider these to be japonica.

Title: Re: Northern Skylark? 雲雀?
Post by stanley_fok on Dec 13^th, 2002, 10:49am

Thanks Paul for the very detailed clarification.

Stanley FOK