Red-billed Buffalo Weaver?

["John Leonard" <>]

I'll answer my own question: having scoured all the field guides I own to places I can't afford to travel to I think it's a Black Bulbul (India to S China, but only northern Indochina).

John L

On 9/20/07, Steve Holliday <> wrote:

Beak is too long for a buffalo weaver, it doesn't match any starling or
icterid either. I think Geoffroy is probably right, although, like John,  I
would have thought a chough would look chunkier.

cheers