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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Thank you for your comments. At the time, both observers did not consider bunting due to the perceived head/bill/eye combination. This underlines the importance of getting a photo. I have seen some photos of BH bunting in September (presumably juveniles) that are very close, plumage wise, to...
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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Thank you, that was my other thought but the bill and head just did not seem to match. Though the slightly yellow vent could be a pointer?
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    Nepal. Is this pale rockfinch/pale rock sparrow?

    Today I was with Shankar Tiwari birding the Manohara river. This seems to be the place for good migrants passing through Kathmandu valley. We had a reasonable morning with at least 6 blyth's pipits and then 3 indian silverbill. We were watching the silverbill when Shankar got a bird flying in...
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    Nepal. Are these grey plover?

    Ten days ago my friend saw two plovers and took these photos. Pacific golden is regular on passage here but Grey is a rare vagrant. I think these are grey but I did not see them and noone saw the axillaries. Comments please.
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    Flycatchers with young in Kathmandu valley, help please

    Thank you. I need to do more research as BoW online does not mention this poonensis form.
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    Flycatchers with young in Kathmandu valley, help please

    Yesterday, towards dusk, we found two young flycatchers and at least one adult. Our first thought was brown-breasted flycatcher. But bill seems too short (and fat) no brown on chest and dark legs. We also consided rusty-tailed but structure not right and no rusty tail. I considered brown...
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    Then again, it does seem to match photos of female pygmy (blue), I think you may be right, the tail colouration and that of the wing is a very close match. Thank You
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    I have seen a few Pygmy blue in Malaysia, this seems a tad big, the size and structure was close to taiga. I think it does not match female sapphire but seems very pale for slaty blue, which I see regularly. Very confusing.
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    Female flycatcher in Nepal

    Seen today at a stream in the Kathmandu valley. With a taiga fly, structurally similar. I am familiar with all of Nepal's flycatchers (except sapphire) but this stumped me. I suspect it is a female sapphire flycatcher. Grateful for your help.
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    Whistling ducks in south-east Nepal, lesser or fulvous?

    Thank you for your help on this, I must admit to ignorance on the key feature of upper tail covert colour. Looking again I must agree that most are lesser, the back view on lesser20, below clearly shows the chestnut red. The bird on the right in ful20 is clearly lesser but the upper tail looks...
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    Whistling ducks in south-east Nepal, lesser or fulvous?

    Dear birders On Friday 2nd April, en route to Biratnagar airport, after a few days birding Koshi Tappu, I visited, in the heat of the day, Barju lake, this is labelled as Chimadi lake on Google maps and is about 10km due west of Biratnagar and about the same distance north and east of the Indian...
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    Pipits in Nepal

    Thanks for all your comments, I am happy to go with Paddyfield, you can see a hint of a dark loral line and the secondary coverts, as mentioned are not right for Blyth's. Paddyfield it is.
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    Pipits in Nepal

    Hello, getting to grips with big pipits. Found this on dry fields in Kathmandu this morning. Lores look pale so rules out tawny and paddyfield? Could it be Blyth's? Advice welcome
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Xuanzhong temple continued.. See the maps attached. We had meadow and elegant bunting and lots of Daurian redstart and Pallas's warblers in the bushes around the big new (overflow?) car park about 400m below the temple. The best here was a fast moving flock of long-tailed rosefinch (lupidus)...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Brown eared pheasant near Taiyuan Firstly Thank You Mike for clarifying that both you and I are using waders in the British sense of shorebirds. Your 42 in a day is my point; I am not claiming that Shanghai is superior simply that in terms of either day count (42+) or season count (48+) the...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Autumn birding part 2 On Thursday 6 October I took the metro to Dishui Lake and a cab out to MF8. I worked the northern clumps then walked south. It was blustery and started to rain. I got a lift down to the hotel area thereby missed the southern clumps. I briefly checked the carpark and GPS...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Autumn birding, part 1 Long time no write. A nice trip to Qinghai in late June/early July, see http://www.shanghaibirding.com/2016/09/02/qinghai-2016-week-1-2/ for nice pictures and a list of birds seen. Qinghai birding can be summed up in one word: thin. Thin air and thin birding. It takes...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Last few maps of Nanhui Two more maps
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    April coastal migration Very busy, so little time to write. I have been out birding for the last four weekends. Complete lists and nice photos can be seen at http://www.shanghaibirding.com/2016/04/12/103-species/ http://www.shanghaibirding.com/2016/04/20/egret-pale-yangshan/...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Nanhui and Yangshan island, dipping on loon Firstly thanks for your your post Roland, I only saw it on the way down today and was very keen for a look as the photo shows a hint on a neck collar (Pacific rather than BT?) unfortunately no luck today. Today out with Stephan and Xueping. Started...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Pulling the plug on reed parrotbill Last weekend, Sunday 5th March, I took the metro line 16 to Dishui lake and a cab out to clump 2. I then had a long walk to the Holiday Inn and grandstand via the best bits of the reedbed. I found an access point into the northern end of the grandstand lake...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Cherry blossom in Century park Today, Sat 27 Feb I did a quick visit to Century park in the spring sunshine. The park was heaving with visitors mostly taking pictures of the lovely pink and white cherry blossom. I walked round to the quiet NW edge, to the west of gate 1. The area under the...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    The coldest day Freakishly cold over the weekend, I joined Craig and Elaine on Sunday to check out Dishui lake and Nanhui coast. -8 C was a record low for Shanghai and nothing to complain about but combined with a howling NW gale which just ripped your face off, very difficult to bird in the...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    RC Cranes and brown-cheeked rail A weekend away birding the coast north of Shanghai. Full details, lists, GPS coordinates and photos at http://www.shanghaibirding.com/2016/01/12/a-reliable-spot-for-brown-cheeked-rail/ We started at Yancheng, it took us over an hour to locate a family party of...
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    Birding the coast around Shanghai

    Mid-winter doldrums Firstly a belated Happy New Year to all. Craig has written a full report on our Nanggong babbler trip with lots of nice pictures and can be accessed here http://www.shanghaibirding.com/2015/12/25/nonggang-babbler-from-unknown-to-science-to-automatic-tick/ Just returned from...
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