AjarnNorth

38 minutes ago, Arjen said:

I see quite often this bright blue bird. It is very shy, makes an awfull sound. It is about the size from a big dove, and when it is resting it is also a similar color. But when it flies it is incredible beautiful blue.

 

Any idea's what bird this is?

 

Arjen.

Indian Roller

53 minutes ago, kgpr said:

Yes I saw it on scrub land, on a low bush

Skeptic7 nailed it. Sub-adult male would be my guess, but his ID is correct for all the reasons he stated. That you saw it in scrub on a low bush makes perfect sense. As I have said before, I love being wrong on birds. Each time I'm wrong, I learn. 

On second look, I believe you're right, Skeptic! Pure laziness on my part and I apologize for my crimes against due diligence. I was too focused on the mystery bird - the one I believe to to be a Juv WR Shama - and only gave the other a cursory glance. The bird shows similarities to both species, but the lack of hooked bill is, I think, the clincher. In the field, this would be an easy call as habitat, from my experience, is completely different. Woodshrike nearly always seen rather high in trees. Bushchat in open scrub area, never too far from the ground.

Good catch! 

Barn Swallow and PT Jacana, yes. 

8 hours ago, thetefldon said:

Help with ID please Chinese Sparrowhawk or Shikra?

Or Besra? Or Japanese? Accipiters are notoriously hard, and while I saw this pic ID's eslewhere as Jov Shikra and agree that's probably right based on "Grey cheeks" and brown crown and etc., note that Robson has Juv. Shikra with "five  black bands on upper tail." This bird seems to have fewer. Do you have any more pics where the tail can be seen better from the very bottom. I'm curious/dubious. 

21 hours ago, kgpr said:

Thanks I will try and get those books when I get back to Europe

All available in Thailand and/or on order from Amazon and etc. 

On 11/5/2016 at 4:26 PM, kgpr said:

But I was wondering about the red rump

Check Robson, Plate 93. Illustration 7c.

"Female non-breeding: Fresh autumn bird. Rump and tail-tip to warm rufous-buff." 

My favorite field guide is Lekagul/Round, but I'm at work and I keep a Robson here as I have 2.

Also, Oriental Bird Club Images for comparisons is always good as illustrations don't always yield a perfect match. 

On 11/5/2016 at 5:48 PM, Aladdin said:

Cheers

 

 

 

I have my books and internet. I have been looking at the Re breasted and the red throated flycatcher (Taiga Flycatcher).   The Taiga is darker on my pictures, and on www.avibirds.com they have a picture of a Asian Brown with a wee bit off red under the bill

 

 

 

And I went for the Asian brown as they are light grey and the Taiga is darker on the back and wings on the pictures I look at. And my book,   A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand and South East Asia by Craig Robson, an excellent book. But sometimes it is very hard to identify the birds from the drawings as they look very similar at times. The reason why I like the colourful birds.  I have pretty much given up on the waders.  I also have the A Photographic Guide to Birds of Thailand by Michael Webster and ChewYen <deleted> and it is rubbish, good for nothing, at least not to have in the field.

 

Internet is the way to go and there are so many pictures it makes me confused many times as the same bird can look so different

 

I have already updated my records with the Taiga flycatcher.

 

And thanks to you I found the folder " Birds in my garden"

 

It was both a very pleasant and disappointing experience. So many beautiful birds and I wish we only had one folder for the birds. As this folder have been dead for a long time, until the last two days. 

 

Thanks, and I hope to see you here again. Maybe some of your pictures from the folder " Birds in my garden" will find its way over here. I only see squirrels from my kitchen window and, well, there are quite a few birds a swell.

I live on Sukhumvit Soi 23 and when I look out my living room and kitchen window it is like I live in a forest. But when I go out I'm in the middle of Bangkok. I hope they never built anything next to my kitchen

 

Anyway, as it is my neighbour's garden I can not upload anything to your folder

 

Cheers

 

 

 

Anything you see from your property counts in the yard list, whether it's in your neighbor's garden or a distant flyover or half way down the soi. Check out Skeptic7's yard list. He also lives very close to you and right off Sukhimvitt and his yard-list/garden-list is well up in the 50s. 

On 1/11/2559 at 11:41 AM, kgpr said:

Not sure about this very small bird either. I would be grateful for an Id.

I have it as most likely a Grey-breasted Prinia. 

On 1/11/2559 at 7:59 AM, kgpr said:

I saw this one in the rice field.

Stonechat, I think. Female or Juv. 

On 30/10/2559 at 10:36 AM, Aladdin said:

Suan Rot Fai

 

Almost sure it is an Asian Brown Flycatcher

 

 

 

 

 

Red-throated, I think. Otherwise known as "Taiga." But not Asian Brown. 

On 27/10/2559 at 8:16 AM, kgpr said:

Some others recently.The Last one I'm not sure about

The last one is a Male Baya Weaver.

11 hours ago, kgpr said:

Thanks for your help. I considered that but I thought it was too grey and too small.But I am grateful to you, you have more knowledge than me. I have only been doing this for just over a month.T thanks again.

Your Barbets are a Lineated and a Coppersmith, though I am guessing you knew that already. And a definite yes on the Common Wood-shrike. I am 90 percent sure the one you have as a possible  "rufous winged philentoma" is a juvenile White-rumped Shama. 

17 hours ago, kgpr said:

Got a new one for me.and a shrike.

Burmese Shrike. My nemesis bird! Years of birding in areas where Burmese are common winter visitors and still haven't positively ID'd one! Hundreds of Asian Brown, a few Tiger, but still waiting on a Burmese....

I also just read that Kuiburi National Park in  Prachuap Khiri Khan Province has a population of this species, but it it's been a caged bird for some time I don't know what the likelihood of its making a transition to life in the wild would be...

https://www.thainationalparks.com/kui-buri-national-park

You might try contact Bird Conservation Society of Thailand: http://www.bcst.or.th/?lang=en

22 hours ago, AjarnNorth said:

Xeno canto and avocet are my two go to sites for recordings.

 

Best match I have found thus far is: http://avocet.zoology.msu.edu/recordings/1762

 

Please feel free to compare and chime in. The "authorities" have already agreed to review the audio file as soon as time permits. 

The authority has gotten back on this and has it as a plain old Oriental Magpie Robin, which was my initial ID many months ago when instead of an actual recording I first received a whistled impersonation (which by the way turned out to be a near exact match) but when I sent back links to OMR the person in question thought it wasn't a match. It's still odd to me that it is an OMR as they are so varied in their songs I see and hear them daily) and this bird seems to repeat the same phrasing over and over, but I have it on the best authority that it's almost definitely an OMR with the following: " The only thing I can make of your mystery bird is that it is most likely an Oriental Magpie Robin.  The pitch and phrasing sound right, albeit a bit short and unusually stereotyped.  But there is quite a bit of individual variation (and females sing as well as males, usually with a shorter song.)  ... IT is most certainly NOT an Indochinese Cuckooshrike, nor any other cuckooshrike... I think it has to just be a Magpie Robin. "  Case closed.

12 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

AN...gave u what i had to offer on The Bird a while back in a PM. What may bear repeating is that A Field Guide to the Birds of SE Asia, 1975 (i have a 1984 reprint) shows the bird's SW range extending not too far from BKK.

Certainly not news to you, but for those unaware...xeno-canto.org has an awesome library of bird calls and songs including this one.

Xeno canto and avocet are my two go to sites for recordings.

Best match I have found thus far is: http://avocet.zoology.msu.edu/recordings/1762

Please feel free to compare and chime in. The "authorities" have already agreed to review the audio file as soon as time permits. 

OK, My turn to ask for ID help from anyone good with calls and/or willing to put in some time. Attached is an audio recording from a friend in Bangkok. The best match I have been able to come up with is Indochinese Cuckooshrike, but P. Round's "The Birds of the Bangkok Area" does not have this species as occurring in Bangkok so I would like conformation. 

You will need to play it through VLC or some such other player as the recording volume is low and needs to be turned up full. 

Any help appreciated. Or can someone point me to another bird ID forum where I might get the help I seek?

Thanks. 

The Bird.mp3

On 5/10/2559 at 0:28 PM, isanbirder said:

First Black Drongo of  the autumn this morning.  They'll be all over the place in a few days' time.

I had my first Black Drongos today, 6 October, a couple kilometers from my house on a morning run in a wooded area. As it was my first run to that area in 5 days they may well have been there as of a few days ago. As I have noted before, because my soi is dominated by Ashy - which are more vocal and aggressive than Black and I have seen actually chasing Black off - I do get black from my yard and my Soi but not nearly as often as Ashy which are now in full swing here - three or four chasing and calling and cackling and screeching, as they do. I've also had and have clear IDable pics of Hair-crested from my yard, but it's been a long time since I have seen one. Not sure if I even saw one last year as I seem to have misplaces my annotated calendar from 2015! I suspect i will find it soon...

4 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

OK so #55 Shrike sp. I have it as Brown Shrike. 2 terrible highly cropped pix in the rain and mist early this morning from about 50m away. Any dissenting views? The first pic is the original...the second auto-enhanced.

No dissent here. And fuzzy jpegs are my specialty (due to my own fuzzy jpegs). It's definitely a Shrike and like with Accipiters where if it's unclear, the default is Shikra, I think the same holds true of Shrike... unless sight ID or photos show otherwise, log it as Brown. So it's 55 nonetheless. For me, one of my nemesis IDs is Burmese! All the birding I have done over all the years in Surin and here in Chonburi, there is no reason I should not have made a positive ID of Burmese, but I have not. Brown, often and regular in both locales. Tiger, a couple confirmed. But still no positive ID of a Burmese. Been driving me crazy for years... maybe this year. 

Might be...  at the very least worth reporting to BCST. The book I refer to covers Central Thailand and the 3 October "earliest record" refers to Phetchaburi so it makes some sense since they are coming from the north that northern locales would have earlier sightings. In fact, same book notes one was recorded in September no speciffic date) in Ubon and another was reported in Malaysia on 19 September.

I will PM you later.

Really, anyone interested in birding, whether you use Lekagul/Round as your main field guide or Robson, should still get "The Birds of The Bangkok Area" by Philip Round. In some ways it's not right that I and others are sharing info from the book to answer questions when the book is available. It's an invaluable resource for this kind of information. 

https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Bangkok-Area-Philip-Round/dp/9744801093