Gallery image Shikra v Besra (1 Viewer)

[Deb Burhinus]

Do people think this looks better for a juvenile Shikra with the dark grey orbital ring and narrow tail bands?

Besra

..at least I am pretty sure this is a Besra, but would appreciate confirmation! Saw it on in evergreen forest, on the way down a windy mountain road, near the 3-way border of Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Saw another also jus before, but didn't...

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[tconzemi]

I guess you are right with Shikra, orbital ring should be yellow in Besra, primary projection looks pretty short but I have no experience with Indian Shikra

 

[Deb Burhinus]

It would be good to get a definitive agreement - this image came up on the search tag linked to OPUS when I was browsing the gallery yesterday- clearly OPUS links need to be correctly labelled otherwise what’s the point? I believe it is a Shikra but given it’s an already IDed Opus image of a Besra, it should be confirmed by more than one person to change it.

 

[delia todd]

Thanks for flagging this up Deb.

I'll watch the results of the discussion.

 

[tconzemi]

After checking OBC Image Database, both orbital ring and tail pattern clearly better for Shikra which has primary projection almost identical to Besra

 

[Deb Burhinus]

Thanks Andy, Tom - Leaving it up to you! 🙂