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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Mon Dec 30, 2002 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Anybody know this bird? |
<img src="http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum/images/e-zine/18/brown-bird1.jpg" border=1> <img src="http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum/images/e-zine/18/brown-bird2.jpg" border=1 hspace=10 align=left>What's this bird called? I've never noticed it before, but it's almost the size of a chicken, at least half a metre in length, inc. tail fathers, and flies like a bird of prey. It spent a lot of time in this swampy, wet area recently, hiding in bushes and sitting for a very long time motionless in that bush. I never heard it making any sound. |
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| Author: | Poppet [ Thu Jan 16, 2003 10:47 am ] |
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Yes - I know it, it's one of my favourite birds. It's called a Greater Coucal (Centropus sinensis), aka Crow-pheasant which I think describes it perfectly. Well done for getting a photo of it, I see one in my garden quite often and every time I run up for the camera it's gone by the time I get back! I'm suprised you haven't heard it, I'm sure you will recognise the sounds - they are quite distinctive. You can download a .wav file of the call from the HK Birdwatching Society's website at http://www.hkbws.org.hk/call.html . |
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Thanks! |
Thanks a lot, Poppet! You seem unusually well-informed! I love nature, but I'm not well-informed myself, even though I studied biology so long ago. It was mostly biochemistry back then, putting most nature lovers off and making me switch to computer science... I'll check out the bird call online and try to record it next time I see it. Anybody else got pictures of interesting, but little-known animals on Lamma? |
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| Author: | the lamma [ Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | how abt this?? |
hey, how abt this?? <img src="http://www.jfps.tpc.edu.tw/~yoyo/New23/001_p1/1031y07.jpg" border=1 width=420> <img src="http://www.jfps.tpc.edu.tw/~yoyo/New23/001_p1/1031y03.jpg" border=1 width=420> its not "bee bird", its call "hawkmoth". its as small as 3 inches and flies the same as bee bird - stop at the front of the flower by moving their wings rapidly. they appears at day times, i saw once at the farmland b4 climbing up the slope to tai peng, and also once at my "blue angel". |
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Hawkmoth! |
Wow, that's a truly beautiful one! It's even prettier than the "pet moth" I had in my flat through the caterpillar/metamorphosis stages. I let it fly free after it emerged from its cocoon. A very easy-to-handle pet (just let the caterpillar eat all greens in your flower pot), and quite a surprise how the butterfly or moth will look like after leaving the cocoon! If somebody has taken a photo of this one (or similar) themself, then they should enter it into the Animals section of our Lamma Photo Contest and stand a great chance of winning that category! |
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| Author: | the lamma [ Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | another one |
here is another one: 
i am sorry that i dunno its english. its a rare type of butterfly in hong kong, i've only seen it once at suk ku wan. the type of flower behind attracts this type of butterfly, and also attract a kind of beetle that eats aphids!! its a very good organic way to control the environemt of yr own organic garden! if u wanna know more abt my farmland, pls visit: http://groups.msn.com/thefarmland/_whatsnew.msnw?pgmarket=zh-hk |
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