Yes, I agree Mike, where does is winter and breed?
This is where I find the internet version of Handbook of Birds of the World, HBW Alive, so useful.
That gives a distribution map (which I can't show here because it is copyrighted) with south and central China breeding only, south east Asia to Singapore all-year distribution and some islands of Indonesia and northeast Australia as wintering areas.
So maybe this bird is a migrant to south China having wintered in south east Asia or Borneo.
This map from Birds of China is similar
but HBW Alive shows all of south China as breeding only.
Maybe some of our China birds experts can elaborate.
By the way, Owen Chiang assures me he was not the one who found the Shan Pui bird, just one of the many who saw and photographed it.
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