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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Thank you for your comments. At the time, both observers did not consider bunting due to the perceived head/bill/eye combination. This underlines the importance of getting a photo. I have seen some photos of BH bunting in September (presumably juveniles) that are very close, plumage wise, to...
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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Thank you, that was my other thought but the bill and head just did not seem to match. Though the slightly yellow vent could be a pointer?
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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Today I was with Shankar Tiwari birding the Manohara river. This seems to be the place for good migrants passing through Kathmandu valley. We had a reasonable morning with at least 6 blyth's pipits and then 3 indian silverbill. We were watching the silverbill when Shankar got a bird flying in...
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    Nepal. Are these grey plover?

    Ten days ago my friend saw two plovers and took these photos. Pacific golden is regular on passage here but Grey is a rare vagrant. I think these are grey but I did not see them and noone saw the axillaries. Comments please.
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    Flycatchers with young in Kathmandu valley, help please

    Thank you. I need to do more research as BoW online does not mention this poonensis form.
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    Flycatchers with young in Kathmandu valley, help please

    Yesterday, towards dusk, we found two young flycatchers and at least one adult. Our first thought was brown-breasted flycatcher. But bill seems too short (and fat) no brown on chest and dark legs. We also consided rusty-tailed but structure not right and no rusty tail. I considered brown...
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    Then again, it does seem to match photos of female pygmy (blue), I think you may be right, the tail colouration and that of the wing is a very close match. Thank You
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    I have seen a few Pygmy blue in Malaysia, this seems a tad big, the size and structure was close to taiga. I think it does not match female sapphire but seems very pale for slaty blue, which I see regularly. Very confusing.
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    Seen today at a stream in the Kathmandu valley. With a taiga fly, structurally similar. I am familiar with all of Nepal's flycatchers (except sapphire) but this stumped me. I suspect it is a female sapphire flycatcher. Grateful for your help.
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    Whistling ducks in south-east Nepal, lesser or fulvous?

    Thank you for your help on this, I must admit to ignorance on the key feature of upper tail covert colour. Looking again I must agree that most are lesser, the back view on lesser20, below clearly shows the chestnut red. The bird on the right in ful20 is clearly lesser but the upper tail looks...
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    Whistling ducks in south-east Nepal, lesser or fulvous?

    Dear birders On Friday 2nd April, en route to Biratnagar airport, after a few days birding Koshi Tappu, I visited, in the heat of the day, Barju lake, this is labelled as Chimadi lake on Google maps and is about 10km due west of Biratnagar and about the same distance north and east of the Indian...
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    Pipits in Nepal

    Thanks for all your comments, I am happy to go with Paddyfield, you can see a hint of a dark loral line and the secondary coverts, as mentioned are not right for Blyth's. Paddyfield it is.
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    Pipits in Nepal

    Hello, getting to grips with big pipits. Found this on dry fields in Kathmandu this morning. Lores look pale so rules out tawny and paddyfield? Could it be Blyth's? Advice welcome
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Xuanzhong temple continued.. See the maps attached. We had meadow and elegant bunting and lots of Daurian redstart and Pallas's warblers in the bushes around the big new (overflow?) car park about 400m below the temple. The best here was a fast moving flock of long-tailed rosefinch (lupidus)...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Brown eared pheasant near Taiyuan Firstly Thank You Mike for clarifying that both you and I are using waders in the British sense of shorebirds. Your 42 in a day is my point; I am not claiming that Shanghai is superior simply that in terms of either day count (42+) or season count (48+) the...
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