Monday, April 23, 2012

Week ending 22nd April - IRRI

Plenty of passage this week, with flocks of hundreds of Yellow Wagtails (with the occasional Grey Wagtail), large numbers of Blue-tailed Bee-eaters and Oriental Pratincoles. House Swifts were very low over Baker Field, along with Palm Swifts and Striated Swallows. The Long-toed Stints from last week were present through most of the week. On Monday 23rd a Slaty-breasted Rail showed well on the upland farm.


Yellow Wagtail, M. f. tshutshensis. A fairly typical individual with a clear white supercilium and grey ear coverts...
A less typical bird, with very dark ear coverts, and no visible supecilium, looking more like M. f. macronyx or M. f. thunbergi, aside from the white throat. Hybrid?
















White-collared Kingfisher
 House Swift over Baker Field

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  1. John HolmesApril 23, 2012 at 3:36 AM

    Lots of migrant Yellow Wags around Hong Kong, too... but ours mainly taivana.

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  2. Paul BourdinApril 23, 2012 at 4:42 AM

    We're supposed to get taivana too, but I never see them. What do you think of the second bird? tschutschensis?

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