Please help me ID these birds.

[Tirso Paris]

Please help me with the identification of the birds in the following photos:

Photo 1 - Taken in Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club


Photo 2 - Taken in Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club


Photo 3 - Taken in Candaba, Pampanga [they look like munias?]


Photo 4 - Taken in Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club. Actually, same birds as in Photo 2.


Thanks a lot!

[Romy Ocon]

The first one looks to me like a Chestnut-faced Starling, Tirso.

Ref:




Those in No. 3 are immature munias, but I'm always confused whether they're Scaly-breasted or Chestnut. My color-blindness doesn't allow me to distinguish the young munias. Here are reference photos, you might be able to tell them apart. I based my ID on the fact that these immature were with their parents when captured.

Scaly-Breasted Munia




Chestnut Munia

[Tirso Paris]

Thank you very much Master Romy. Based on the reference photos you provided, it looks like the birds in Photo 3 are immature chestnut munias. The rest have close resemblance to the photo of the Chestnut-faced Starling. Thanks again!

[fred serrano]

sir,

photo #3 - these are chesnut munia juveniles. we have plenty of them now in the ces area.

fred s