Lat Krabang, Bangkok, Thailand - Stonechat (1 Viewer)

[Aladdin]

Dear members and bird watchers!

I was at Lat Krabang a couple of days ago and I spotted a few Stonechats. One of them attached as picture #1

Attached picture #2 is a bird that I ID as a Stonechat as well, but back home looking at the pictures I discovered that this bird doesn't fit any description of a Stonechat in any of my bird books. The red breast don't go all the way up to the black, and there is also very thin white brows.

Picture # 3 and 4 and I suspect that it is the same bird as picture #2

The quality of the pictures leave a lot to wish for, kept for ID purpose only.

Anyone know the ID for picture #2+3+4?

Kind Regards and happy birding
Aladdin

 

[andyb39]

All Amur Stonechats, Saxicola stejnegeri, a recent split.

 

[Aladdin]

Thank you very much!

It was driving me crazy. Picture #1 was straight forward to ID, but the other pictures, looks very different.

Just back from Kanchanaburi and I tried to report an Asian Pied Starling, impossible to find in eBird even though I have reported the bird many times before. Now they have changed the name.

Thanks again for the help!

Kind Regards and happy birding
Aladdin

 

[andyb39]

Thank you very much!

It was driving me crazy. Picture #1 was straight forward to ID, but the other pictures, looks very different.

Just back from Kanchanaburi and I tried to report an Asian Pied Starling, impossible to find in eBird even though I have reported the bird many times before. Now they have changed the name.

Thanks again for the help!

Kind Regards and happy birding
Aladdin

Yes, now split into Indian and Siamese Pied Starlings.

 

[johnallcock]

Thank you very much!

It was driving me crazy. Picture #1 was straight forward to ID, but the other pictures, looks very different.

Just back from Kanchanaburi and I tried to report an Asian Pied Starling, impossible to find in eBird even though I have reported the bird many times before. Now they have changed the name.

Thanks again for the help!

Kind Regards and happy birding
Aladdin

Picture #2 is a male that has not yet attained full breeding condition (probably first winter). The white in the breast and supercilium (and brown tips to the rest of the head feathers) will wear away in the coming weeks to reveal the typical breeding pattern.

Picture #3-#4 is a female.

 

[Oregon John]

Asian pied starling is now split into Indian pied starling and Siamese pied starling. In Lat Krabang it is almost certainly a Siamese pied starling you saw and you can report it as such on eBird.

 

[Aladdin]

Picture #2 is a male that has not yet attained full breeding condition (probably first winter). The white in the breast and supercilium (and brown tips to the rest of the head feathers) will wear away in the coming weeks to reveal the typical breeding pattern.

Picture #3-#4 is a female.

Thank you johnalcock!

Good to know, this was what made me confused as the bird #2 had a white band under the throat. And #2 also have thin eyebrows that I could not see in my books

Know I know next time I see them

Cheers!
Aladdin

 

[Aladdin]

Asian pied starling is now split into Indian pied starling and Siamese pied starling. In Lat Krabang it is almost certainly a Siamese pied starling you saw and you can report it as such on eBird.

Thank you!

I have reported the Asian Pied both in SAARC and ASEAN. So I reported the bird as Indian first as had reported the Indian before according to my eBird records. But then I realize that they had split the bird and that was the Asian Pied I had reported in the SAARC area.

So now I report all the AsianPied in ASEAN as Siamese

Cheers!
Aladdin

 

[lockbreeze926]

Well. Seems like I have just scored a couple of armchair ticks, with these splits.

Yay.

As soon as I find my quill to scribe the changes, I will record the new reality.