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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Paradise Flycatcher ID
        
(Message started by: Allen on Oct 8^th, 2006, 10:38pm)

Title: Paradise Flycatcher ID
Post by Allen on Oct 8^th, 2006, 10:38pm

Is it a Japanese or Asian Paradise Flycatcher?
Please help to identify.
Thanks in advance.

http://images4.fotop.net/albums3/summerday/Webpost/IMG_6471_7.jpg

Title: Re: Paradise Flycatcher ID
Post by geoff_welch on Oct 9^th, 2006, 7:42am

I think this is Japanese, from the dark brown wings and tail and the dark grey breast.

But can you tell us where and when this and the Cuckoo photograph were taken?

Title: Re: Paradise Flycatcher ID
Post by miket on Oct 9^th, 2006, 1:28pm

Thank God for this photo, restoring my confidence in my ability to identify at least some of these birds - clearly a Japanese Paradise, of course.

Does the underpart patterning suggest an adult, and is that why it's so obvious, I wonder?

Mike Turnbull

Title: Re: Paradise Flycatcher ID
Post by Allen on Oct 9^th, 2006, 9:13pm

on 10/09/06 at 07:42:40, geoff_welch wrote:

I think this is Japanese, from the dark brown wings and tail and the dark grey breast.

But can you tell us where and when this and the Cuckoo photograph were taken?

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for your id.
Both JPF and the Cuckoo were seen at Po Toi on 8/10/2006.
I have posted some photos of JPF on Photo Gallery I.
And do you have any idea about the species of the Cuckoo?

Allen

on 10/09/06 at 13:28:55, miket wrote:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your id. and confirmation of JPF.

Allen

Title: Re: Paradise Flycatcher ID
Post by Tony on Oct 10^th, 2006, 12:39am

I also agreed this it a Japanese Paradise,
I saw a Asian Paradise at Kowloon Park.
It's breast showed a with very clear cut of white and dark blue grey than this. And the wing color is brighter than this.