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(Message started by: Lynx on Nov 12^th, 2005, 11:41pm)

Title: Yellow-breasted Bunting 黃胸(巫鳥) I
Post by Lynx on Nov 12^th, 2005, 11:41pm

Yellow-breasted Bunting 黃胸(巫鳥)
Long Valley, 12 Nov 2005
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/lynx/lynx_86.jpg
http://www.9014316.com/birds/CRW_3295_yellow-breasted_bunting.jpg

Title: Re: Yellow-breasted Bunting 黃胸(巫鳥) I
Post by Yat-tung YU on Nov 13^th, 2005, 9:37pm

This bird shows some chestnut feathers on rump, lower mantle, crown and coverts. I think it is a Chestnut Bunting.

Title: Re: Yellow-breasted Bunting 黃胸(巫鳥) I
Post by 648 on Nov 13^th, 2005, 9:48pm

你近來愛上LV,不愛TPK? ;D

Title: Re: Yellow-breasted Bunting 黃胸(巫鳥) I
Post by Lynx on Nov 14^th, 2005, 7:44pm

on 11/13/05 at 21:48:52, 648 wrote:

你近來愛上LV,不愛TPK? ;D

Recently it's been the high season of migration and I have to move around both LV and TPK in the weekends.... it's so busy ;D Are you moving around Tsim Bei Tsui and Mai Po too?

on 11/13/05 at 21:37:13, Yat-tung YU wrote:

This bird shows some chestnut feathers on rump, lower mantle, crown and coverts. I think it is a Chestnut Bunting.

Thanks for your identification! t's looks to me either a female chestnut or yellow-breasted bunting but I have no previous experience with the female chestnut. That's why I am not so sure. Below is another photo showing more parts of the breast. I hope this may help experts like you to give me the answer 8) Thanks!
http://www.9014316.com/birds/CRW_3281_yellow-breasted_bunting.jpg

Title: Re: Chestnut Bunting 栗(巫鳥) I
Post by Paul Leader on Nov 17^th, 2005, 9:11am

I agree that these are actually Yellow-breasted Buntings; the bill is too large, the head pattern too well marked, there is obvious white in the tail (which Chestnut never shows) and the median coverts show very pale tips (rufous in Chestnut Bunting).

Title: Re: Chestnut Bunting 栗(巫鳥) I
Post by Yat-tung YU on Nov 17^th, 2005, 12:05pm

Paul,

Thanks for your correction.

Tung

Title: Re: Chestnut Bunting 栗(巫鳥) I
Post by Lynx on Nov 17^th, 2005, 9:14pm

Thanks Paul and Tung!

I've learnt so much from the discussions 8)