>I want to query the sighting of 4 thornbills I saw at the Pt.
>Albert end of a morning walk from Seabank and appear similar
>to the slender bill we have here (in S.A.). They were in the
>floodplain with striated fieldwrens and brown thornbills in
>adjacent shrubs.
>
>Are there any suggestions on what these are? I'm positive that
>they're not Brown Thornbills which were common in the adjacent
>shrubbery.
Hi Peter
There's almost no chance at all that these are Slender-billed Thornbills
(aka Samphire Thornbill), because that species has a very limited range
in mallee heathland in the Little and Big Deserts in NW Victoria. We
don't have the samphire version of the 'Samphire' Thornbill here!
Maybe they were Buff-rumped Thornbills - outwardly somewhat similar in
appearance, calls, etc.
Regards, Lawrie
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