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Id help - Pendam/Sikkim - 2 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter mihir
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1. Himalayan Swiftlet?
2. Indian Cuckoo? - thick yellow eye-ring and dark eye, quite heavily barred on undertail coverts
3. struggling with this one - is it a weird shot of Rufous Woodpecker?
4. could be White-tailed, but what about Kashmir?
5. agree with Grey-hooded
2. Indian Cuckoo? - thick yellow eye-ring and dark eye, quite heavily barred on undertail coverts
3. struggling with this one - is it a weird shot of Rufous Woodpecker?
4. could be White-tailed, but what about Kashmir?
5. agree with Grey-hooded
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Grahame Walbridge
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1. Himalayan Swiftlet
2. Himalayan/Lesser Cuckoo Not sure how you eliminate Lesser from this image.
3. Striated Laughingthrush ??
4. White-tailed Nuthatch
5. Yellow-bellied Warbler
Grahame
2. Himalayan/Lesser Cuckoo Not sure how you eliminate Lesser from this image.
3. Striated Laughingthrush ??
4. White-tailed Nuthatch
5. Yellow-bellied Warbler
Grahame
Grahame Walbridge
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2. Himalayan/Lesser Cuckoo Not sure how you eliminate Lesser from this image.
Out of interest, how did you eliminate Indian?
3. Striated Laughingthrush ??
Could be, but I thought it was adopting a rather woodpecker-like pose.
5. Yellow-bellied Warbler
It has a yellow throat?
Out of interest, how did you eliminate Indian?
3. Striated Laughingthrush ??
Could be, but I thought it was adopting a rather woodpecker-like pose.
5. Yellow-bellied Warbler
It has a yellow throat?
Grahame Walbridge
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re 2 Fair point Andy. No view of the under tail so cuculus sp.
re 3 No idea really but the bird does appear to have streaked underparts and upperparts.
Grahame
I'm not sure that helps much! I'm trying to work out if this bird has a thick yellow eyering and small black eye, or yellow iris and rather large pupil, they're such difficult images. Apart from that, I would say the white bars on the folded wing (on either side of the undertail coverts) - more normally large white spots in this species - and rather heavily marked UTCs do not seem to be typical of Lesser Cuckoo. I've cropped and adjusted the 1st image of this bird, if anyone else wants to have a go.
Re the bird in the 3rd image, I found some pictures of Streaked Laughingthrush clinging to a tree-trunk and a near-vertical branch, so I think Grahame's right. As he says, it's streaked on both the underparts and upperparts, so I can't see any alternative - definitely not Rufous Woodpecker, which is heavily barred on the upperparts.
Re the bird in the 3rd image, I found some pictures of Streaked Laughingthrush clinging to a tree-trunk and a near-vertical branch, so I think Grahame's right. As he says, it's streaked on both the underparts and upperparts, so I can't see any alternative - definitely not Rufous Woodpecker, which is heavily barred on the upperparts.
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I think we can safely rule out Indian due to the absence of the terminal band on the tail, rich rufous-brown markings on the upperparts and reddish-brown irides.
Although the bird looks quite small and fine-billed, I'm leaning towards a young Himalayan. I can't find any images of juv Himalayan but it seems Lesser should be rather greyer, something like this bird, unless it's a hepatic morph - this one doesn't appear to be:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=443&Bird_Image_ID=108874
Your bird, on the other hand, is quite richly-coloured on the upperparts, seems to have a reddish iris and is quite finely-barred on the underparts.
I may be wrong though, and would welcome a second opinion.
Although the bird looks quite small and fine-billed, I'm leaning towards a young Himalayan. I can't find any images of juv Himalayan but it seems Lesser should be rather greyer, something like this bird, unless it's a hepatic morph - this one doesn't appear to be:
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=443&Bird_Image_ID=108874
Your bird, on the other hand, is quite richly-coloured on the upperparts, seems to have a reddish iris and is quite finely-barred on the underparts.
I may be wrong though, and would welcome a second opinion.
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