Belated BY - 6th year! Herman&Kit

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Some repeats

 

Brown hawk-owl or Brown Boobook

 

Common Flameback

 

Laced Woodpecker 

 

Lesser Coucal

 

Sooty-headed Bulbul

 

Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Taivana race; the one in HK was of macronix race) 

 

 

Red-whiskered Bulbul 

 

Common waxbill

 

Great egret

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590. Chestnut Munia

 

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591. Crimson Sunbird

 

 

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592. Brown-throated Sunbird

 

A pretty sunbird that returned to our garden after its favourite flowers from a revived bottle brush tree blossomed. 

 

 

 

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593. Lanceolated Warbler

 

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594. Thick-billed Green Pigeon

 

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595. Zitting Cisticola

 

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596. Ashy Tailorbird

 

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597. Black-crowned Night Heron

 

Adult

 

Juvenile

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598. King Quail

 

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599. Western Hooded Pitta

 

A regular winter visitor who usually turns up at the end of the year 

 

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600. Blue-winged Pitta

 

A huge favourite among the local birding community, the beautiful winter visitor never fails to arrive on our shores. 

 

 

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601. Great Slaty Woodpecker

 

A rare visitor after the local species - together with six other woodpecker species - was extirpated in our island in the 1950s. 

 

 

 

 

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602.Blue-rumped Parrot

 

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603. Chinese Egret

 

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604. Common Hill Myna

 

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605. Copper-throated Sunbird

 

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606. Greater Painted Snipe

 

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607. King Bird of Paradise

 

A surprising appearance of a King BOP in a residential area towards the end of the year suggsted it was somebody's pet bird and it had either escaped or set free. Likely escaped, as I can imagine how costly a BOP would have cost. But 1. I'm glad its free from the confines of a cage (it seems to be doing rather well outside the cage) 2. I debated whether to include this in, EBC I suppose. 

 

 

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608. Medium Egret

With its new, nonsensical name. 

 

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609. Orange-headed Thrush

 

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610. Pacific Reef Heron

Dark morph

 

white morph 

 

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611. Pacific Swallow

 

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612. Pin-tailed Snipe

 

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613. Purple Heron