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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

    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

    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?

    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

    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

    Hello and welcome to a new thread focused on bird migration around Shanghai. In this thread I will always try to give precise and accurate information of sightings and areas so that others can be encouraged to join me in looking for coastal migrants. After two years based in Nanchang, Jiangxi...
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    Birding China, hard gen

    Dear all As promised, I am starting a new thread for any posts concerning hard information about birding in China. I cannot police the content but what I am looking for ideally is.. Precise locations of trailheads which lead through good forest, best if GPS refs are given in full decimal eg...
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    What was the bulbul I saw in Sulawesi 20 years ago?

    On top of a mountain in Sulawesi I distinctly remember seeing a bulbul I thought at the time was black bulbul (along with my colleagues) Having seen square-tailed in Sri Lanka and Himalayan black bulbul in China I know realise it could not have been black on range of leucocephalus. Really...
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    Birding Tanzania

    Hello, starting a new thread for birding trip reports from Tanzania I was lucky enough to visit Tanzania in August 2012. On a 9 day intensive birding trip I saw only 288 species but did see a lot of montane forest species at west Usumbara. I attach a brief trip report and full annotated...
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    Hainan

    Starting a new thread on that little-birded island. I have just returned from a family holiday, staying at Yalong bay. I was able to do some birding and saw Hainan leaf warbler, greater racket-tailed drongo, ratchet-tailed treepie and, possibly the rarest, rufous-naped laughingthrush. Please...
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    Birds of Nanchang and Poyang Hu, Jiangxi Province

    Hello Starting a new thread for sightings from: City of Nanchang and surrounding area. Poyang Hu Wuyuan and other sites in Jiangxi Province Start with reposting my list on bird species recorded in the city of Nanchang in my first three months. Hope to travel to Poyang Hu this weekend, will...
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    Birds seen in Nanchang city, Jiangxi province, China

    My first three months in Nanchang have produced some reasonable birds. Two major sites in the city, Aixi lake and associated parkland and the fish ponds and parkland of Elephant lake. Getting around is easy with cheap taxis, bird numbers not high but you do get to see some nice birds such as...
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    Harrier ID in Qatar

    Marsh, montys and pallid are all regular here, but Hen is very scarce. I think this is a female hen harrier but my recent record on calling raptors is not good. Please tell me what you think. Thanks
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    Saunders tern in Qatar

    This is my fourth winter in the Gulf and I am with great trepidation trying to separate little from Saunders in winter plumage. In summer, in the field, the extra black in the primaries of Saunders is very striking however I have not managed to get close enough to get a picture in which I can...
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    Amur falcon in Qatar, probably female but how old?

    Today, Fri 31st this Amur Falcon was found at Arakihya farm. The first record was 13 months ago, a nice male. Two weeks later another bird which at the time was called an immature was found. A year and a fortnight later a third record. I feel that today's bird is a female but unsure of age...
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    Yellow browed or Humes

    Found this warbler today, I am fairly happy it is YB rather than Hume's but appreciate any comments Thanks Michael
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    Funny curlew

    Why is this curlew looking so dark? Really dark primaries, skinny feel, any chance of eastern (oriental) curlew? Photos taken in Qatar in Oct. Never saw the bird in flight otherwise the lack of white rump would be be diagnostic, not claiming oriental just interested in why it was so dark and...
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    Putative long toed stint in Qatar

    Found this wader today, with lots of little stint but just not right, plumage wise just dark and blotchy but the jizz was longer legged, more hunched up, longer necked. At one point I was so frustrated with my ability to call it I said it must be a runt ruff, then a dunlin walked past and it was...
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