Wow ! Thanks Dr. Parashar for this analysis - raising and addressing the curiosity ! Gives a great feeling to have been party in capturing a rarity - if that is indeed the case, as the experts speak !
-- My pleasure to share the picture - albeit not as perfect, since the bird was almost vertically up about 10m.
Best regards
Asit Nema
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From: Yogesh Parashar <yogeshparashar@ymail.com>
Date: 22 November 2013 16:54
Subject: [DELHIBIRD] kashmir flycatcher
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From: Yogesh Parashar <yogeshparashar@ymail.com>
Date: 22 November 2013 16:54
Subject: [DELHIBIRD] kashmir flycatcher
To: delhibird <delhibird@yahoogroups.com>
On Sun 17 Nov we were searching for the owls at the canals in Dighal. We saw a flycatcher which looked like a red breasted flycatcher. But the red extended on most of the breast and was comming on to the flanks. The bird was sitting on a branch about 10 meters above the ground, was very still and not making sorties. In the field confusion was between the red breasted ( a common bird) or the Kashmir flycatcher. The large red area and different behaviour made us wonder if we were seeing the uncommon Kashmir flycatcher.
Subsequently Nitu has consulted Bill Harvey and has informed me that Bill has seen the photos and confirms it to be a Kashmir Flycatcher.
It would be a lifer for me. If anyone has reported it in Delhi and NCR, I am not aware. It is not mentioned in the atlas. It is said to be globally threatened, with fewer than 10,000 remaining. We would be seeing it on passage migration from Kashmir to Sri Lanka and south India.
Comments welcome.
I would request the two people taking photos that day to please share their photos with us.( If they permit me I will put them on delhibirdpix)
Yogesh
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