gandytron
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Given that August seems to be the best time to chance upon a migrant Brown-streaked Fly in Bangkok I did a bit of web-searching for images of this spp the other day to familiarise myself with it. I found a series of images of a bird labelled as "Brown-streaked Flycatcher" on the OBC images database taken in Singapore in Jan 2011 http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?p=3&Bird_ID=2702&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1 (see images 3, 4, 5 and 6) and thought that they looked similar to images I had from my local patch in downtown Bangkok. A quick look through my own images has produced the attached (taken 20th Feb 2009), which to my eyes are more or less the spitting image of the Sinagpore bird (bill structure and extent of yellow on lower mandible, buff lores and near absence of eye-ring, ground colour, very weak streaking on underparts).
The only things that bother me are the apparent lack of rufous tones in the wing covert fringes, and the fact that in my bird you cannot see its back to indicate if it has any warmer tones in the rump or upper tail coverts.
I have never seen 'Brown streaked" Flycatcher, and much of the information I read, and images I see relates to nice streaky 1cy birds, so I'm unsure what a mid-winter bird would look like.
Can anybody enlighten me?
Thanks
Dave
The only things that bother me are the apparent lack of rufous tones in the wing covert fringes, and the fact that in my bird you cannot see its back to indicate if it has any warmer tones in the rump or upper tail coverts.
I have never seen 'Brown streaked" Flycatcher, and much of the information I read, and images I see relates to nice streaky 1cy birds, so I'm unsure what a mid-winter bird would look like.
Can anybody enlighten me?
Thanks
Dave