A New Addition to My Personal Checklist of Birds of Putrajaya Wetland
Monday, September 25, 2006
21 September 2006, I was taking my routine walk in the park. it was 4pm (which was quite unusual as i usually walk in the morning or 12pm). i know it's already the start of migration season, so i thought i should checkout for flycatchers (yes, i went to the same area where a flycatcher was spotted last year). no sign of that flycatcher from last year. suddenly i saw an active bird under a tree nearby. it look so much of a pied fantail. a common local species but i decided to check it out anyway. GOODNESS!!! couldn't believe my eyes. a new species for my personal checklist in the park.
This is a comment by a local birder "i found out that the Asian Paradise-Flycatcher shown in the photo having a orangey bill with a blackish tip, but the description in most guide books is a blue bill and blue eye ring too, but these photos does not show that blue at the eye ring or the bill, but yet they are not in juvenile plumage. I'm wondering if they are immatured birds almost moulted as adults or they are the migratory race "saturatior", however, i cant find guides that describe the saturatior race is lack of blue bill and eye ring."
While someone suggest a philentoma, he replied "first, we see that the mantle and scapulars are brown, which should be bluish in male philentomas, females doesn't look much like wat is shown in the picture as it will be more plain in colors for the head part. Furthermore, the jizz of the bird still tells us that they should be paradise-flycatchers, the small crown seen in Cheong's photo is rather obvious, and try to have a look on the bill eye and the bill, a special "jizz" tell u its a paradise-flycatcher. I have also checked OBI, and saw a female AP Flycatcher shot at Tai Po Kau, HK, is having pale bill too, and a Japanese Paradise-flycatcher with pale bill is labeled as Immature, so its either the pale bills are immatures for both species, or they indicate diffrent subspecies??? I saw pictures of male AP Flycatchers in India having blackish bills."
posted by wengchun @ 6:28 PM,
