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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 18:13:56 GMT
I feel sure this topic has been discussed before sometime. I have seen birds on Cebu with some orange on the breast too.
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 14:28:13 GMT
Not loading for me either
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 14:25:03 GMT
My guess is a juvenile moulting to adult plumage
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 14:23:51 GMT
Are you sure about the Grey Imperial? The vent looks darker, suggesting Green Imp
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 14:03:32 GMT
Thanks Steve. Thanks Edu. Is that a Little truck or a Great truck?
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 14:01:39 GMT
Just because it looks like the pic of aurora in the book does not actually mean it is aurora. The origin of the orange genes for the breast may be from Palawan, but the Negros birds probably differ in other ways
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 10:09:15 GMT
Hi Tonji. Was it big enough for a Chinese? It doesn't really look right for Chinese somehow. Des
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 10:07:48 GMT
Bird right of tattler is a Wood sandpiper. Other birds with Pac GP: rusty crowned, eyebrowed, streaked wader could be Sharp-tailed Sandpiper or Long-toed Stint. On relative size I would vote for Sharp-tailed, with the other smaller ones as Red-necked Stints
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 9:59:34 GMT
It looks to me like it could be a Chinese Egret. But could it not be a Little Egret? A very good ID feature comes from the name. How big was this bird? Little Egrets are ... little. They can show blue on the facial skin and at this time of year can show a lot of green on the legs.
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Post by des on Oct 14, 2010 9:52:21 GMT
Steve, affusolate? Not even my Chambers Dictionary has that word. What do you want it to mean? cheers Des
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Post by des on Sept 27, 2010 20:25:37 GMT
Nice ...but the tail needs to be completely spread, as they sometimes do when preening.
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Post by des on Sept 27, 2010 8:16:18 GMT
Was bird 1 much larger than the Whiskereds? It looks like it might be a Gull-billed
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Post by des on Sept 27, 2010 8:13:09 GMT
I agree with Pygmy FP but it is not such an easy ID. From memory Pygmy does not usually look so evenly olive in colour, the pale brow is usually more evident, but perhaps this is clinal and Bicol birds are less contrasting as noted by the KG for ssp pygmaeum. But the blue-grey base to the mandible, the black legs, the absence of a greyish lore, and the bill shape all point to Pygmy rather than Buzzing
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Post by des on Sept 24, 2010 16:41:57 GMT
I have never seen a bird like this but I think it is an immature Chestnut Munia that is moulting into adult plumage. There are 2 examples on OBI, though not as interesting patterns as yours, nor such fluorescent green bills.
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Post by des on Sept 24, 2010 12:17:40 GMT
I agree with Steve. Or we need to see it fanning its tail clearly, as they sometimes do when preening...
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Post by des on Sept 22, 2010 13:11:48 GMT
Sorry, no. That is a Pygmy, as you say.
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Post by des on Sept 22, 2010 8:21:28 GMT
I agree with Tonji. Yes they don't have red keels to start with, and they do have a 2 tone bill. The bird to be careful with on Bohol is the Buzzing Flowerpecker, which has a similar pattern to this bird. If this bird is exactly the same shape as the adult RKFPs I would go with that though.
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Post by des on Sept 22, 2010 8:16:00 GMT
YB whistlers have a variety of calls/songs, much beyond the upwardly inflected single note taht is characteristic. I do my sound recording now on my Canon XHA1, but with a Sennheiser plugged in
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Post by des on Sept 22, 2010 8:12:49 GMT
The kingfishers look to be immatures: dark scaling on the underparts, dark brown in the crown. I still haven't seen any with a buff-washed breast as mentioned in the KG, except Romy's Davao pic, which not not be WCKF...
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Post by des on Sept 20, 2010 9:31:20 GMT
I agree with Neon about the first one not being a bird. The second one sounds like Yellow-bellied Whistler. (This is in the solved section of XC)
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