Mike Kilburn
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Re: Ng Tung Chai
« Reply #1 on: Dec 28th, 2003, 11:16pm » |
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A postscript to my previous message: As I left the village to go to town this evening I saw a Brown Thrush in a fruiting tree along the foot path (not the road) down to the Lam Kam Highway about 100m from the village square. Directions: From the village square find the toilet block and turn left. The road narrows to a path before turning lright and starts to drop downhill. The fruiting tree is by a burned area and next to a small house painted bright blue. Lots of bulbuls also use this tree and I have seen Red-throated Flycatcher , Azure-winged Magpie, Daurian Redstart and Rubythroat on the burned patch in the last week. Also I have twice heard a Russet Bush Warbler singing nearby. The bird was only seen with the naked eye but at close range. It had a borad orange-red breast and flanks with a narrow v of white which broadedned towrds the underatil coverts. It also had a brownish back and head and similarcoloured throat, which showed no sign of any contrast from malar stripes or supercilia. The bill looked yellow. This was not the same bird as I saw with the Kwans, which Geoff identified as Grey-backed Thrush. However I have benefitted from seeing that bird as it has helped to clarify the ID of this Brown Thrush for me. Cheers Mike
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