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Falcon
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Re: Pallas's Reed Bunting?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 26th, 2003, 4:01pm » |
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This could be a Little Bunting.
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Re: Pallas's Reed Bunting?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 26th, 2003, 8:20pm » |
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Hi Lynx,
This is certainly not either a Pallas's Reed or Yell.-breasted Bunting - I'm wondering why you picked on those two quite different birds out of the range of bunting possibilities, but I hope that doesn't sound discouraging. It's not meant to, it's just that there are so many reasons why it isn't either!
Falcon's right it could just be a Little Bunting, but I think it's a Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata for several reasons;
(i) the supercilium is grey in tone; in Little it's the same tone as the ear coverts area, though perhaps a little paler
(ii) the pale line coming down from the bill is broader, paler and thus more striking than in Little.
(iii) there seems to be quite an extensive orange tone about the underparts
(iv) there's actually relatively limited streaking on the underparts
(v) the eye-ring is exceptionally striking
(vi) the bill is relatively large and has a pink tone - in Little it's smaller and grey, with just a bit of pink at the cutting edges.
(I don't have a photographic memory btw, I'm looking at several photos of both in a Japanese photo guide)
This is a good record, should be reported to Birdline and must be submitted with the rest of your records before the end of Jan 04, via the Excel file available on this siite. Chestnut-eared Bunting is barely annual in HK. In 99 there was only one in autumn and 00 there were three, all between 14 Oct and 4 November.
Also it's a nice photo - those of us who are not really photographers do enjoy the opportunity to look at photos like this.
Mike Turnbull.
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Lynx
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Re: Pallas's Reed Bunting?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 28th, 2003, 10:52pm » |
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Thanks Mike and Falcon for your valuable comments and advice!
I thought it was a Pallas because it has overall paler upperpart and the colour of the bill. I stated yellow-breast also because there were reports of sighting in Long Valley in the past weeks.
I have learnt so much from reading your replies  Thanks a lot!
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