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Long-billed partridge?
Hi Boris, These are probably Malaysian Hill Partridges. I spoke to Geoffrey Davison, the authority on Malayan galliforms and he shares the opinion. Do you have more photos? Best, Ding Li -
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Hi Dave, If you haven got them i can send u a copy of this and the birdingAsia article. There appears to be even more recent probable sightings tho without photo documentation as far as i know Cheers Ding Li- Ding Li
- Post #41
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Hi guys, As promised...some photos of the museum specimens. Here's the first of a series. Ding Li- Ding Li
- Post #31
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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15 reasons to come birding in Sumatra
A friend of mine saw the endemic Sumatran race of the Grey-headed Woodpecker not too long ago on Gunung Tujuh...but looking at Subandi's notebooks, no one has seen it ever since then Ding Li- Ding Li
- Post #4
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Just a casual update...I've gone through the underwing pattern of all our silverys. All of them do not have complete black secondaries when seen from the bottom, half to as much as 3 quarters of it is greyish...so if seen from the bottom, the black fringe is actually very different and much...- Ding Li
- Post #30
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Personally, i find it very hard to base a species distribution, let alone an enigmatic species on a handful of historical localities and even so, mostly which are hardly sampled. Almost every southeast asian island that i ever worked or birded on had a few species added to the list each time it...- Ding Li
- Post #28
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Rasmus, I've written to Crimson since last week but he hasn't replied...lets hope he does and so that more constructive photos can surface! Ding Li- Ding Li
- Post #24
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Seems like a lively discussion going on here...just to add on to some of the observations...at least 3 of the specimens of silvery showed to varying extents of brownish to cream washes on their vent (in contrast to the overall bluish-grey) and interestingly has a similar fade effect to the...- Ding Li
- Post #23
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Looks like a green imperial pigeon...was it seen near the coast? the location looks a little like danum valley Ding Li- Ding Li
- Post #14
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
Hi all, i've sieved through the net and surprisingly, found a photo of 2 silvery wood-pigeons in some birdkeeper's collection! Alan, i've taken some photos of the silvery pigeons here and will be posting them shortly. (If you like i can send them to you through your mail). As the specimens...- Ding Li
- Post #13
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green Imperial, Pied Imperial and unknown Pigeon Indonesia
mystery mentawai pigeon Hi all, I was able to compare the images with 8 specimens of silvery pigeons and the coloration and facial pattern matches that with the photos. The underwing pattern is NOT quite the same, as suggested by the specimens and i think we could say that these are among...- Ding Li
- Post #10
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A