Re-Posted 30th Apr 2006
Hey Zep,
I am not much of a bird watcher, but had been growing up from HK country side all along except the nine years I spent in UK and Canada, I am now living in Fanling area of NT, I do know a lot about wild life in the area(in water, on land or in air - use to spent my summer holidays catching all sorts of things and bring them home as pets - family used to own a huge fish farm for tropical fish breeding), but just this Sunday when I am walking home after lunch, I saw this couple of birds which I swear I never saw in Hong Kong before, I took a few pictures, but because the distance is pretty far off, there is only one showing some obvious feature which I think you might be able to identify, again, there were two of them, but I manage to take picture from just one of them, the size of them are a little bigger than a Magpie, black feathers with some white, when it spread its wing, there is a white ban (sort of like the ceasted myna), very cautious bird, when I try to get close without cover, to about 30 yards, it flew off. From the picture attached, you may notice the beak, looks like some kind of of bird of prey...anyway, hope you will find out what kind of bird is this, I will keep looking out for them ...if I can take more pictures, will post it here to share.......again sorry for the poor quality picture.
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