Thursday, 28 February 2013

MALKOHA 2/6 - Green-billed Malkoha


 
 
Green-billed Malkoha
With its long tail it is easily 2 feet long. Differentiated from the Green Billed by the missing white eye patch. So another Malkoha to the list..... Yippee!
The anti-climax was when Zoglander commented :
The white is not obvious around the eyes, but this still felt very much like a Green-billed Malkoha, the tail is quite long and the white patches are quite big. The Black-bellied is overall smaller, tail shorter in proportion and white patches seemingly much smaller as well. But both are quite hard to tell in the field unless u have a good zoom in on the face.

Do notice also the shape of the bare skin of the eyes, take the following 2 photos as a reference
http://www.pbase.com/cajuca/image/77914339
http://www.pbase.com/cajuca/image/93209265

My conclusion is that this is a Green-billed Malkoha rather than Black-bellied.
 

1 comment:

  1. Hi, the cuckoo on these two photos is not Phaenicophaeus tristis (Green-billed), but Ph. diardi (Black-bellied). I am 100 % sure. Look e.g. on the absence of white line around red mask or relatively dark grey colour of upper body, which are typical for black-bellied.

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