kscheng

A bird with grey head prominent white eye-ring yellowish underparts was found hung out on a shrub in Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve on March 5.  She is a grey-cheeked fulvetta.  The 14-centimeter long timaliids remains a big mystery to the authorities.

wgeoff

She isn't a Grey-cheeked Fulvetta, she's a Huet's Fulvetta and she's now on the HK List.

This 'mystery' was resolved at the last Records Committee Meeting and was reported in the last posting on this thread

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/BBS/viewthread.php?tid=15341&extra=page%3D1

[ Last edited by wgeoff at 29/04/2013 17:42 ]

kscheng

What a piece of good news.  The mysterious fulvetta has been resolved by the authorities.  Thank you to wgeoff to provide this updated input enclosed with the thread which I read with great interest.  My first encounter to this fulvetta was on January 29th at Tai Po Kau and fail to name it.  After consulted with an experienced watcher and had made references to page 578 of A photographic guide to the birds in Hong Kong September 2010 edition and page 206 of The birds of Hong Kong and South China, we identified the timaliids as grey-cheeked fulvetta.

Apparently more input would be required to supplement the Huet's fulvetta or even the David's fulvetta.

Thank you again to wgeoff for the updated input.