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    ID Help - Unknown Australian Kingfisher

    I don't have much experience of Sacred Kingfisher but I've seen a lot of Collared Kingfishers in SE Asia including the Philippines and if I'd seen this bird I would never have questioned its being anything other than Collared. I think that you need more than its being in forest to suggest that...
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    Cuckoo species: ID help

    Sorry,I don't think it does - I think that we need underwing covert pattern to help on this. However, I need to look at some photographs of skins which I took at Academia Sinica - this will not be for 2 or 3 days due to other committments - I'll get back to you. Mike
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    Cuckoo species: ID help

    If I saw this bird in South China I would be fairly confident of its being Oriental C. (s.) saturatus. This is based on the assumption that it is a juvenile - photo 3 seems to show two ages of feathers on the upperparts - if so it is too heavily barred below for Lesser which shows almost...
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    Help ID this bird in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia please.

    These are certainly excaptive birds. Laughingthrushes don't migrate but are all too common in the cagebird trade - the damaged claw is a classic feature of an ex-cagebird. They are very pretty but they don't belong in Malaysia - most such ex-captive birds eventually die but occasionally a...
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    pls. identify (it flew into my house)

    I see no reason why this is not a genuine wild bird. From the photo it seems to be in excellent condition. Hooded Pittas are listed as rare in NE India by Grimmett et al. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent and it is a known migrant. Pittas are also reowned for turning up in weird places on...
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    Curlew sp. at Minsmere

    The excellent new photos at ww.magikbirds.com have convinced me that the bird is a Eurasian Curlew (and hence presumably a first winter male). Pity, I was looking forward to setting a twitching record...I'll just have to console myself with trapping a few Arctic and Dusky Warblers. I would add...
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    Curlew sp. at Minsmere

    I have just read this thread from the beginning, looked at all the photos, checked BWP and exhaustively compared these with the BB paper on the Druridge Bay bird - you will understand this when I explain that I have a flight booked from Hong Kong on Sunday night! It is obviously not an eastern...
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    Which Camcorder?

    Pc-330 I had (almost) decided to get the PC330, not just for birding reasons but also as a replacement for a long-in-the -tooth but well used early Sony DCR - posts on this forum have convinced me to go for it - thanks. Question for Ben - did you go for the Eagle eye 10X pr 5X and any...
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