Juvenile ? central Thailand (1 Viewer)

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robby thai

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• Aug 21, 2017

• #1

Went this morning to a place where Limestone Wren Babblers are often seen and got these 2 photos of a small bird close to the ground, it appears to have a fair bit of down. Photos were taken about half an hour apart in the same area there were 3 birds together with the first and 2 with the second.

Cant find any photos of Juvenile LRB to compare, ideas please.

 

Bryon Wright

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• Aug 21, 2017

• #2

Nice photo Robby and must agree with you. Possibly, never been photographed before now, at this exact stage. The same stage in Mountain Wren-babbler most forms being very rufescent and marked, like post fledgling European Robins. Your bird is relatively very plain and uniform.

 

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Grahame Walbridge

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• Aug 21, 2017

• #3

Where exactly were they taken Robbie? Was it at Wat Phra Phuttabhat Noi? Are you saying they were present with the adults?

According to Robson (2015) juvenile Limestone Wren-babbler is undescribed.

Cheers,

Grahame.

 

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Grahame Walbridge

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• Aug 21, 2017

• #4

Robby,

I took the liberty of sending the images to Phil Round who has just replied 'they have to be juvenile Limestone Wren-babblers.' Juvenile plumages of Large and Streaked Wren-babblers, both of which have similarly scaled upperparts, show plain body plumage with varying amounts of pale shaft streaks to the head/upperparts.

Suggest they are worth posting both on Opus and OBI.

Grahame

Apologies for misspelling your name earlier. It must have been a typo.

 

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robby thai

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #5

These photos were taken around the same rock complex as Wat Phra Phuttabhat Noi. There are 3 temples around those rocks the one the photos were taken at is this one :

 

Last edited: Aug 22, 2017

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robby thai

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #6

This is the place where the photos were taken :



GPS 14.660483--100.968406

There is a partly overgrown staircase going up the hill and the photos were taken up this between 20 and 50 meters above the last buildings.

I saw no adults at either here or at Wat Phra Phuttabhat Noi.