Today's mystery bird for you to identify | @GrrlScientist

These lovely Chinese mystery birds have recently been removed from a wastebasket taxonMystery Birds photographed in the Mai Po Wetlands in the northwestern corner of Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. [I will identify these birds in 49 or so hours] Image: Marie-Louise Ng, 24 March 2012 (with permission, for GrrlScientist/Guardian use only) [velociraptorise]. Nikon D7000 500 mm 1/1600 f/6.3 iso:200 Question: These lovely Chinese mystery birds have recently been removed from a wastebasket taxon. Why is this taxon referred to as a "wastebasket taxon"? How did these birds get there? Can you identify the taxonomic family for these birds and their species?The Game:1. This is intended to be a learning experience where together we learn a few things about birds and about the process of identifying them (and maybe about ourselves, too). 2. Each mystery bird is usually accompanied...

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