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(Message started by: Yuichi on Jan 4^th, 2003, 11:31pm)

Title: Common Stonechat 黑喉石即鳥
Post by Yuichi on Jan 4^th, 2003, 11:31pm

292 Common Stonechat 黑喉石即鳥
Mai Po 米埔
I took a photo today at Mai Po 米埔. ???
Please kindly identify.

http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/mb/tai/1DSCN0764.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/yuichi/yuichisstonechat01.jpg

Title: Re: Please identify this bird
Post by Kestrel on Jan 5^th, 2003, 4:00pm

it is a Siberian Stonechat.

Title: Re: Please identify this bird
Post by lz_zephyr on Jan 6^th, 2003, 6:29pm

Never seen a Siberian Stonechat before.

At first glace, I thought it's a female Pied Bushchat, due to the red-brownish waist. What's the difference between the two?

Title: Re: Please identify this bird
Post by TH_Kwan on Jan 6^th, 2003, 8:48pm

The female Grey bushchat has both sides of its tail as well as its rump rufous. Its face is also darker. The bird that Yuichi showed got a rufous rump but black tail, it also has black streak on its back, that is only present in Siberian stonechat.

Title: Re: Please identify this bird
Post by lz_zephyr on Jan 7^th, 2003, 6:27pm

Thanks for the advice, Kwan. ;)