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Mousumi Dutta
Jalpaiguri
www.jalpaiguribirds.com
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From: Mousumi Dutta <duttamousumi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [OBPix] Re: Rufous-breasted Accentor
To: delhibirdpix@googlegroups.com, birdphotoindia <birdphotoindia@googlegroups.com>, orientalbirdingpix@googlegroups.com
I am sorry, I do agree with AMS & Arka, It is Rosefinch. Could it be female White-browed? The reddish breast resembles with the following pix-
From: Mousumi Dutta <duttamousumi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [OBPix] Re: Rufous-breasted Accentor
To: delhibirdpix@googlegroups.com, birdphotoindia <birdphotoindia@googlegroups.com>, orientalbirdingpix@googlegroups.com
I am sorry, I do agree with AMS & Arka, It is Rosefinch. Could it be female White-browed? The reddish breast resembles with the following pix-
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Arka Sarkar <sarkar.arka@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like Spot-winged Rosefinch to me as well, though I don't know
whether from this angle it could be decisively told apart from the
Dark-rumped. What is interesting is the reddish breast, which I dont
recall seeing in females of either.
Off to Sandakphu tomorrow - will try to look out for both :D
--
Arka
> --
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> wrote:
> At 2011-04-20 21:39:10 +0530, duttamousumi@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Photographed in East Sikkim on 15.04.2011
>
> This is surely no Accentor. Look at the beak! It's a finch of some kind.
>
> But I don't recognise it, and I don't have any books handy to consult. I
> would have guessed female Spot-winged Rosefinch, but my memory of those
> is as being rather plainer, without this obvious brown breast-band; and
> the supercilium is probably not quite so bright white either.
>
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