Asia - Plovers (1 Viewer)

[Kongi]

Hi,
Could you, please, help me and check these plovers?

Thank you
Petr


my best guess:

1 Little Ringed Plover: Vietnam, Phan Rang, Nui Chua NP
2a,2b Long-billed Plover: Vietnam, Phan Rang, Nui Chua NP
3 ?with recent splits, I am not sure?: Borneo, Pulau Tiga NP

 

[timsg80]

I would guess Kentish Plover, Greater Sandplover and Kentish Plover.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

I'd go for Kentish, Greater Sandplover, and Malaysian Plover

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Last pic looks good for Malaysian (scruffy looking upperparts, Kentish looks much plainer & smoother).

Cheers

James

 

[rockfowl]

I'd go for Kentish, Greater Sandplover, and Malaysian Plover

Agreed

 

[johnallcock]

The first one looks good to me for 'White-faced' Plover (dealbatus), the possible split from Kentish.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

The first one looks good to me for 'White-faced' Plover (dealbatus), the possible split from Kentish.

I have to agree with John, the bird in image 1 must surely be a transient male 'White-faced' Plover. In Kentish the black eyestripe is much more obvious, running from the bill to well beyond the eye. In this bird there is only a feint black comma in front of the eye, possibly a weak extension to the rear.



http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?p=7&Bird_ID=2840&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1

 

[rockfowl]

I did consider White-faced, a species I'm familiar with from Thailand, especially as the bird shows an obvious pale base to the lower mandible, something I've noted. However the bird looked rather too scaly and the bill structure, a little short of what I'm used too, Swinhoe's can be rather sandplover-like. You could be right, it would be a good find in Borneo.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

I did consider White-faced, a species I'm familiar with from Thailand, especially as the bird shows an obvious pale base to the lower mandible, something I've noted. However the bird looked rather too scaly and the bill structure, a little short of what I'm used too, Swinhoe's can be rather sandplover-like. You could be right, it would be a good find in Borneo.

Seems to be some confusion here Mark. John was referring to the bird in the first image, taken in Viet Nam. The bird you seem to be referring to, with an obvious pale bill base and taken in Borneo, is the one in last image?

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Happy to go along with White-faced for 1st bird, if that's what John and Grahame think it is. I didn't realise that they can show any dark between eye and bill. Great bird, hope I get to see (and recognise) one one day!

 

[rockfowl]

Seems to be some confusion here Mark. John was referring to the bird in the first image, taken in Viet Nam. The bird you seem to be referring to, with an obvious pale bill base and taken in Borneo, is the one in last image?

Your right, its me that's confused :smoke: Didn't really look at the first image properly, looks good for Swinhoe's/White-faced. Got locked into why the last wasn't so strikingly marked as Malaysian usually are and didn't read the responses properly. Blame it on a fried brain from being out early..

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

Happy to go along with White-faced for 1st bird, if that's what John and Grahame think it is. I didn't realise that they can show any dark between eye and bill. Great bird, hope I get to see (and recognise) one one day!

I have just contacted Phil Round who has confirmed the first bird is a male 'White-faced' and the last bird is indeed a Malaysian Plover.

 

[Kongi]

Thank you very much for clarification!
Petr