A SE Asian bird of the babbler family, the male having red and yellow plumage with a black-and-white head.
银耳相思鸟
Leiothrix argentauris, family Timaliidae
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The two silver-eared mesias found in Mong Kok have tested positive for H5N1, the Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department says.
And others such as silver-eared mesias and velvet-fronted nuthatches, which may be escapees from the wild bird trade.
Officials said tissue samples from the finch-like mesias were pooled so it was impossible to say how many had been killed by H5N1.
In the mountain forest of Mount Tahan, the silver-eared mesias, chestnut-capped laughing thrushes and shrike-babblers can be seen foraging.
Taiwan will send veterinary epidemiologists to Britain to sort out a government report by British authorities that the virulent H5N1 bird flu strain was found in Taiwan-exported silver-eared mesias, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official said yesterday.
In addition, the government assigned veterinary epidemiologists to Britain to sort out government skepticism of a British report that the virulent H5N1 strain was found in Taiwan-exported silver-eared mesias.
Visit to nearby forest of Mawsmai cave for possible chances of Babblers, Red-billed Leiothrix, silver-eared mesia.
According to the report, a group of silver-eared mesias imported from Taiwan were determined to be infected with the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus.
Feb 2007 silly me again… the top pix shows a silver-eared mesia, one of the most common bird in fraser's hill while the second pix show a female large niltava.
Quite often birds like the silver-eared mesia would go about happily foraging in a shrub just a few feet from humans.
On Sept.28, 186 birds, including 100 mesias, were arrived by plane from Taiwan to England.