More Thailand birds I photographed around the Songkhla area.
1.intermediate egret
2.fledgling pied fantail
3.migrating dusky warbler
4.white-vented Myna, showing how it got its name
5.purple swamphen
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.the egret - which i call the little cows' friend here - & the swamphen look very familiar, not sure where each originates.
walklightly
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May 24, 2018
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I googled it and the intermediate egret winters in Thailand and nearby countries, but breeds in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China (north to Szechwan, Hunan), Korea, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku), and a few in Indonesia (Java, Sumatra).
The purple swamphen, now renamed the black-backed swamphen breeds mainly in India and Pakistan June-Sept.
@birdingnut, thank you for having done the google thing this time. your considerate knowledge & resources about birds, which sky-high surpasses mine, are much appreciated here - i just love birds 
@walklightly When questioning a bird photo's ID, I consulted my Thailand birds field guide, but now I just google photos of the species. Last night I found a photo in my archives I'd labeled a Yellow Heron, even though it didn't look right. I'd attributed the weird color to my messing with RAW settings, but when I checked the pic against google photos, I decided it was a juvenile Cinnamon bittern, which I'd never seen before, so a sort of "lifer!"
Did you take these pictures yourself?
pixiedust
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May 24, 2018
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Yup.
@birdingnut They're marvelous. You must have a lot of patience. Do you use a zoom lens?
@pixiedust Thanks! I have a Canon EOS 7d and use a Canon 200-400mm zoom lens.I started photographing birds once digital cameras improved enough to be useful, and I even moved to Thailand because my Thai university student showed me photos of birds he'd taken here.
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