Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
Da Lat area, Vietnam, today.
3 individuals seen that appeared to be of the very yellow form/s of "Blyth's Leaf" and/or "White-tailed Leaf" Warblers.
All three birds looked pretty much the same, ie. strongly yellow-toned face and unds fading to whiter on lower belly, andat least mostly bright pink lower mandibles. Obviously (I presume !) either of the two species groups mentioned above. I figured they were likely to be klossi and/or ticehursti. All were vocal, which gives me hope that someone out there will know what they are !
Bird 1. song was a vaguely great Tit-like "ter-witcher-tu ter-weecher-tu" repeated a lot with regular 2 second pauses between phrases.
Bird 2. song was a longer rambling phrase, very vaguely like a tinny abbreviated Dunnnock, that went "bt-i-wt-iwwuti-weeu-tUI", with the same tune repeated at irregular (longer) intervals.
The songs were so different that I find it hard to believe they'rethe same "form"
Bird 3. called a few times (possibly agitated by someone doing Collared Owlet impression !). Call was always a trisyllabic "See-tu-rit". This bird was rapidly openning and closing it's tail a lot like eg. Orange-barred. Didn't show obvious white in tail (but I think maybe both suspected forms wouldn't ?)
What were they, and what's the "go" with them taxonomically these days ?
3 individuals seen that appeared to be of the very yellow form/s of "Blyth's Leaf" and/or "White-tailed Leaf" Warblers.
All three birds looked pretty much the same, ie. strongly yellow-toned face and unds fading to whiter on lower belly, andat least mostly bright pink lower mandibles. Obviously (I presume !) either of the two species groups mentioned above. I figured they were likely to be klossi and/or ticehursti. All were vocal, which gives me hope that someone out there will know what they are !
Bird 1. song was a vaguely great Tit-like "ter-witcher-tu ter-weecher-tu" repeated a lot with regular 2 second pauses between phrases.
Bird 2. song was a longer rambling phrase, very vaguely like a tinny abbreviated Dunnnock, that went "bt-i-wt-iwwuti-weeu-tUI", with the same tune repeated at irregular (longer) intervals.
The songs were so different that I find it hard to believe they'rethe same "form"
Bird 3. called a few times (possibly agitated by someone doing Collared Owlet impression !). Call was always a trisyllabic "See-tu-rit". This bird was rapidly openning and closing it's tail a lot like eg. Orange-barred. Didn't show obvious white in tail (but I think maybe both suspected forms wouldn't ?)
What were they, and what's the "go" with them taxonomically these days ?
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