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Hong Kong raptor and crow (Nov. 2019) (1 Viewer)
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Valéry Schollaert
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Black Kite (linaetus sub-species, sometimes called Black-eared Kite) looks good. Not familiar with local crows.
johnallcock
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Agree with Black Kite.
Carrion Crow is a rare vagrant to HK (fewer than 10 records).
The default all-black crow in HK is Large-billed, which is a common resident species and forms large communal roosts (including at a couple of sites on Lantau, where it's very easy to see). Although it's not an easy angle to judge bill shape, the broad, rounded wings and long, rounded tail look right for Large-billed, and I think that's what this is.
Carrion Crow is a rare vagrant to HK (fewer than 10 records).
The default all-black crow in HK is Large-billed, which is a common resident species and forms large communal roosts (including at a couple of sites on Lantau, where it's very easy to see). Although it's not an easy angle to judge bill shape, the broad, rounded wings and long, rounded tail look right for Large-billed, and I think that's what this is.
stevethehydra
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If that corvid photo was taken in the UK I'd have called it an immature Rook. Can it be Eastern Rook (C. (f.) pastinator)?
johnallcock
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There have been a couple of records of Eastern Rook in HK during the last two years (it had long been predicted as a feasible vagrant).
But given that Large-billed Crow is very common (I probably see it every time I go to Lantau island, including flocks approaching 100 birds), I think you'd need much stronger evidence of the bill structure to suggest it's another species.