robby thai
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This pipit is considerably different from others I saw at the Black Kite Roost in Nakhorn Nayok. Could it be Buff-bellied pipit ?
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Pipit central Thailand (1 Viewer)
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Grahame Walbridge
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Grahame Walbridge
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Not necessarily Roland, leg colour of japonicus can be confusingly variable from pinkish to almost black, though perhaps more typically reddish-brown, as these examples illustrate.
http://www.birdsofsaudiarabia.com/2012/01/first-for-bahrain-siberian-buff-bellied.html
http://www.israbirding.com/reports/monthly_summaries/jan_10/
http://isring.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/siberian-buff-bellied-pipit.html
More consistent differences vs Paddyfield include the white eyeing, paler lores, colder and darker upper parts, white median coverts bar, bold dark malars and underpart streaking and whiter underparts etc.
Also Buff-bellied is a vagrant to Thailand.
Grahame
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CARERY
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Wasn't aware that they can show such pale legs. Still, I suppose even they lightest-legged quite a bit darker than the Paddyfield?
Grahame Walbridge
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I don't know about 'quite a bit darker' but yes, I'd agree always darker. I was merely making the point that leg colour of japonicus is more variable than widely perceived.
Perhaps I should have pointed out the more obvious differences in plumage in my initial post.
Grahame
