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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Asian Paradise-Flycatcher or Japanese Paradise Fly
        
(Message started by: kittykoo on Sep 6^th, 2006, 10:08pm)

Title: Asian Paradise-Flycatcher or Japanese Paradise Fly
Post by kittykoo on Sep 6^th, 2006, 10:08pm

Asian Paradise-Flycatcher or Japanese Paradise Flycater? ???
6 September 2006
Maipo

sorry for the blur image.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h192/kittykoohk/DSC_3635-01b.jpg

Thank you. :)

Title: Re: Asian Paradise-Flycatcher or Japanese Paradise
Post by miket on Sep 6^th, 2006, 10:13pm

Personally, I'd go for Asian on this one - isn't the head/upper chest and shoulders contrast a readily discernible and reliable feature? If so, this clearly points to Asian, and the tail looks "light and bright".

I'm a bit less sure about the ones posted elsewhere which have been discussed by Dave Diskin and Mike Leven, amongst others. If there are Japanese amongst them, they're not the most easily separable ones I've ever seen.

Mike Turnbull.

Title: Re: Asian Paradise-Flycatcher or Japanese Paradise
Post by kittykoo on Sep 7^th, 2006, 12:46am

Thanks Mike.  It is the only photo I've got. :)