Known/Unknown - Common/Uncommon birds

Raj_55555 · May 12, 2014

Here are a few of my local birds on display, specially for you nice folks

. I wonder how many of these are local to you guys as well, do post if you've seen one of these before.

#1 Red Vented Bulbul

#2 Red whiskered Bulbul

#3 Common Myna

#4 Yellow Billed Babbler

#5 Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron (Thanks to Sharon

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sm4him · May 12, 2014

No Bubbuls here, vented, whiskered or any other sort.
No mynas either, that I'm aware of, except captive ones.

Now that last one, that looks just like our juvenile Black-Crowned Night Herons.
For comparison, here's a picture of one I took last year. Looks like the same bird, but sometimes they're called different names in other countries.

Aug4_1381editweb by sm4him, on Flickr

baturn · May 12, 2014

What Sharon said, except I've never seen a Black Crowned Night Heron either.

Raj_55555 · May 12, 2014

sm4him said:
No Bubbuls here, vented, whiskered or any other sort.
No mynas either, that I'm aware of, except captive ones.

Now that last one, that looks just like our juvenile Black-Crowned Night Herons.
For comparison, here's a picture of one I took last year. Looks like the same bird, but sometimes they're called different names in other countries.

Thank you so much Sharon, it is indeed a juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron. I had no idea that they looked so different than the adult ones, and TBH I had no idea they were juvis. Thanks for the ID, updated the original post, and nice shot that one

Raj_55555 · May 12, 2014

baturn said:
What Sharon said, except I've never seen a Black Crowned Night Heron either.

Here, you've seen one now

I just realized that I didn't have a decent picture of them, definitely my next target when I spot one.

sm4him · May 12, 2014

Raj_55555 said:
sm4him said:

No Bubbuls here, vented, whiskered or any other sort.
No mynas either, that I'm aware of, except captive ones.

Now that last one, that looks just like our juvenile Black-Crowned Night Herons.
For comparison, here's a picture of one I took last year. Looks like the same bird, but sometimes they're called different names in other countries.

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Thank you so much Sharon, it is indeed a juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron. I had no idea that they looked so different than the adult ones, and TBH I had no idea they were juvis. Thanks for the ID, updated the original post, and nice shot that one

The first time I ever saw a juvenile one, I was SO excited, thinking I'd found some cool new bird that I hadn't seen before! They really are SO different looking from the adults, and about the same size, so it's kinda confusing. There is a LOT of birding that's kinda confusing…like trying to tell one sparrow species from another… :lol:

Do you also have Yellow-Crowned Night Herons there?

Raj_55555 · May 12, 2014

sm4him said:
The first time I ever saw a juvenile one, I was SO excited, thinking I'd found some cool new bird that I hadn't seen before! They really are SO different looking from the adults, and about the same size, so it's kinda confusing. There is a LOT of birding that's kinda confusing…like trying to tell one sparrow species from another…

Do you also have Yellow-Crowned Night Herons there?

lol.. Yeah, how's it possible that a juvi and an adult are of the same size? Maybe these are just fluffy

As for the Yellow-crowned herons, I've never seen one here, and I don't think they are found in Asia. I wish we had them though, would make for a nice subject

Civchic · May 12, 2014

sm4him said:
There is a LOT of birding that's kinda confusing…like trying to tell one sparrow species from another…

Or warblers! I'm always getting excited about seeing a rare species - today I saw a Prairie Warbler!! Except, no I didn't, it was a black-throated green warbler.

Apparently we have night herons around here but I've never spied one.

Raj_55555 · May 13, 2014

Civchic said:
Or warblers! I'm always getting excited about seeing a rare species - today I saw a Prairie Warbler!! Except, no I didn't, it was a black-throated green warbler.

Apparently we have night herons around here but I've never spied one.

I love yellow warblers, again never saw one in person, but they are so fluffy and cute

You should try spying on one, I find them amazingly graceful when they're hunting. They can be immobile for a long time, their concentration level being so high it'll put Shaolin monks to shame.
And the distinct advantage to the photographer being able to operate on a relatively slow shutter speed. Blessings for people with slow lenses like me

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IceCanAm · May 13, 2014

Great shots Raj

Raj_55555 · May 13, 2014

IceCanAm said:
Great shots Raj

Thanks Kjartan

Here's one more; I don't quite remember whether I've shared this earlier or not, but I'm too lazy to recheck.

Ashy Woodswallow

psran · May 13, 2014

Nice pics Raj.

Adding some pics of the birds that you have posted,hope you don't mind it

nzmacro · May 14, 2014

Heck I missed these, watching too much 20/20 from India

All darn good shots Raj and amazing colours in these. Got a nice look from #3, nice low shot that one. Nice work on the Heron as well, all fine shots. What you will notice with the DSLR soon, is the ability to isolate the subject more with less DOF, Your focus needs to be bang on unless you can stop down a bit more. The isolation of the bird though, does work well. You will have a blast Raj and should be fun to watch.

All the very best Raj and well done here.

Danny.