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21 September 2010

Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher - Lenin Park, Hanoi

Hi all,

a late morning / lunchtime visit today (21st September) produced some excellent birds around the toilet area, Lenin Park.


1 Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher: This bird took some efforts to be identified correctly. Luckily, after a call Simon came over and we followed the bird together for about 30 - 40 minutes after we concluded it must be BCJF. It had no obviously hooked bill (only very slightly) but pretty much all of the other features looked good for this species - including behaviour!


Other birds of note were:

- 1 female-type Siberian Blue Robin

- 1 female Mugimaki Flycatcher

- 1 female Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

+ couple of Asian Brown Flycatchers, Arctic Warblers and Brown Shrikes.

No sign of yesterday's Phylloscopus armada.

Cheers,


Simon, Falk

3 comments:

  1. Sorry for the mess with the pictures - the arrangement looks awful..
    Falk

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  2. really not bad. makes it 3 BCJF already

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  3. yes 3 BCJF, and I saw none...
    why life is so cruel !
    it`s the 11th species of flycatchers observed near those public toilets... Good work !
    Sebastien

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