Tokyo, Japan today. Several different birds (1 Viewer)

crazyfingers

Well-known member

• Feb 27, 2015

• #1

Business trip to Japan this week.

Thoughts on these?

1 looks a bit like a starling?
2 No idea what this is but very beautiful
3 Cormorant but what kind?
4 some kind of egret?
5 also look a bit like starlings

These were all is a small park in the middle of the city of Tokyo. I saw all three of the big ones fly in so they are not captive.

Tomorrow is Saturday so don't be surprised if I have more Japanese birds!

 

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sicklebill

well-known Cretaceous relic

• Feb 27, 2015

• #2

Brown-eared Bulbul
Little Egret, Pochard and Pintail
Great Cormorant, Pochard and Wigeon
Great Egret
White-cheeked Starlings

 

chris butterworth

aka The Person Named Above

• Feb 27, 2015

• #3

Seconded ( except there's no Eur. Wigeon in #4, they are all Common Pochard ). Temmincks / Japanese Cormorant has a greater extent of white on the face and less yellow bare skin which makes a distinct point on the gape and the feathers on the lower mandible / gular pouch form a forward pointing, rounded extension, unlike the vertical one in the photo.

 

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crazyfingers

Well-known member

• Feb 27, 2015

• #4

Thanks very much! As you can imagine Japanese/Asian species are totally unfamiliar to me. But I have a weekend free this year so I took along my good camera. I expect looking for some assistance tomorrow too as the forecast is a sunny day. It is appreciated.

 

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rkj

Well-known member

• Mar 1, 2015

• #5

It has been a long time since I have seen either species, so perhaps someone can tell me why the egret in the second photo is not an Intermediate Egret. The bill shape seems to me better for that species than for Little Egret and the lore and feet colors not clearly suggesting one species or the other.

 

steveMc

Well-known member

• Mar 1, 2015

• #6

chris butterworth said:

Seconded ( except there's no Eur. Wigeon in #4, they are all Common Pochard ). ...

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Not sure they ALL are. |=)| Based on all I can see (bill, rear end) it looks to me like the far right bird is a Northern Pintail, though no idea if they occur there and/or are called something else.

 

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Sangahyando

Well-known member

• Mar 1, 2015

• #7

steveMc said:

Not sure they ALL are. |=)| Based on all I can see (bill, rear end) it looks to me like the far right bird is a Northern Pintail, though no idea if they occur there and/or are called something else.

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You're of course right, there is a Pintail in #4.
Chris probably mistook the comment about the third picture (wich has Pochards and a Wigeon) as referring to the fourth one (Pochards, a Pintail, and no Wigeon).