Brown-breasted Flytacher?

[ArturBujanowicz]

http://bujanowicz.info/indie2/98.jpg

While I was taking this picture, the local bird guide told me that it is Brown-breasted Flycatcher. Then I've send it to Krys Kazmierczak and he doesn't agree with the ID. I have also received a mail from one of Surfbirds users and he also says that this is a mis-identification.

Photo was taken this year in Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa, India. The bird was sitting on a low branch just above brook in a forest.

[forktail]

Hi Arthur

Krys is correct. It isn't a Brown-breasted Flycatcher. It is superficially similar in that it has a bicoloured bill etc but it doesn't have the eye-ring, long tail, pale legs, buffy-brown-edged greater coverts etc of a Brown-breasted. It's also not a dark enough shade of brown.

It looks like an Acrocephalus warbler, possibly a Blyth's Reed Warbler.

[macrourus]

Agree with Forktail

it seems to be a Blyth's RW (porobably a 1st y bird according to appearant iris colour and stage of plumage as well as very pointed rectices and remiges)....
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[marklhawkes]

thirded. Appears to be a Blyth's Reed Warbler

[Peter Stronach]

Yes, if you look closely at the wing edge there appears to be "relatively" clear emarginations on P3 and P4. This, their position, and the short primary projection would suggest Blyth's Reed.