HKBWS BBS 香 港 觀 鳥 會 新 聞 組    Discussion Area 討論區    Photo Gallery 相片分享 I (Moderators: carmen, BBS Moderators, Forrest FONG, George_Ho, Kwok Jai)    Yellow-bellied Prinia 灰頭鷦鶯 « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Yellow-bellied Prinia 灰頭鷦鶯  (Read 621 times) me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Yellow-bellied Prinia 灰頭鷦鶯 « on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 7:45pm » Quote Modify 345 Yellow-bellied Prinia 灰頭鷦鶯 Nam Shan Wai 南生圍 01/2/2004 EOS 10D + 70-200 IS + 1.4X   100% crop shown here. http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan01/uid.jpg May I know what kind of bird it is?   I have no clue where to start in the "Hong Kong and Wah Nam Birds" book.         Thanks a lot     « Last Edit: May 29th, 2004, 11:35am by BBS Moderators » Logged me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Re: ID help please « Reply #1 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 7:51pm » Quote Modify Here is another one, thank you.     Mai Po (outside MPNR) 米埔外圍 01/01/2004 EOS 10D + 70-200+ 1.4X     « Last Edit: Feb 2nd, 2004, 11:10pm by me_domchan » Logged 鳥友Ａ(BWA) Committee Member BBS God I love Nature!     Gender: Posts: 308 Re: ID help please « Reply #2 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 8:08pm » Quote Modify First message: page 162 (Chinese) or 164 (English)   Second message: page 40 (Chinese) or 42 (English) « Last Edit: Feb 2nd, 2004, 8:10pm by 鳥友Ａ(BWA) » Logged me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Re: ID help please « Reply #3 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 8:44pm » Quote Modify Thanks.     No.1 should be ...Plain Prinia ? No. 2 is the problem... Is this a cattle egret or Intermediate egret?     Logged 鳥友Ａ(BWA) Committee Member BBS God I love Nature!     Gender: Posts: 308 Re: ID help please « Reply #4 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 9:08pm » Quote Modify Please look at the length of its neck. Logged me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Re: ID help please « Reply #5 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 9:20pm » Quote Modify on Feb 2nd, 2004, 9:08pm, 鳥友Ａ(BWA) wrote: Please look at the length of its neck.   That beats me............will you call it long or short?   I only knew how to tell a little egret from other egret..... any more tips?   OR..this is a Great Egret?   Logged bond BBS Member BBS Full Member I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 33 Re: ID help please « Reply #6 on: Feb 2nd, 2004, 10:27pm » Quote Modify   I think you are right. They are Plain Prinia and Great Egret. Logged 鳥友Ａ(BWA) Committee Member BBS God I love Nature!     Gender: Posts: 308 Re: ID help please « Reply #7 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 12:01am » Quote Modify The neck of Cattle Egret is shorter and can hardly form the "S" shape shown in your photo.   Notice that the gape line (end of the beak) stops under the eye, which indicates Intermediate Egret. The bill also looks shorter than that of Great Egret.     « Last Edit: Feb 3rd, 2004, 12:01am by 鳥友Ａ(BWA) » Logged me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Re: ID help please « Reply #8 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 9:36am » Quote Modify 鳥友Ａ(BWA)   Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation and step by step approach!   I know how to distinguish Cattle, Intermediate and great egret now, I hope.     Logged guest Guest Re: ID help please « Reply #9 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 10:36am » Quote Modify Remove sorry to disagree.   it's a Yellow-bellied Prinia in the first three photographs. Logged gjcarey BBS Member BBS God     Posts: 115 Re: ID help please « Reply #10 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 10:40am » Quote Modify Check out the following for a pic of Plain Prinia, and note the differences between that and the Yellow-bellied above.   http://www.9014316.com/birds/228_2894_plain_prinia.jpg   Geoff Logged bond BBS Member BBS Full Member I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 33 Re: ID help please « Reply #11 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 11:15am » Quote Modify sorry for the wrong answer, I think I should practice more... Logged me_domchan BBS Administrator I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 501 Re: ID help please « Reply #12 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 12:42pm » Quote Modify Thx gjcarey     bond, your help is appreciated. It may be the fault of my small and low quality photo.       Logged bond BBS Member BBS Full Member I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 33 Re: ID help please « Reply #13 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 10:50pm » Quote Modify But the second and third photos are really clear and sharp!!   Logged 鳥友Ａ(BWA) Committee Member BBS God I love Nature!     Gender: Posts: 308 Re: ID help please « Reply #14 on: Feb 3rd, 2004, 11:34pm » Quote Modify Thanks guest and Geoff.  I also learn something about prinias. 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