Over the past 4 weeks we have had many large birds at our place in
Kinglake, Ravens, Choughs, Rosellas, Galahs, King Parrots and Magpies.
However with the incineration of almost every stick of understorey
vegetation in our town there has been a noticeable (and expected)
absence of smaller birds in the dawn and dusk calls.
I was a little bit shocked and pleased upset to see what I think was a
Rufous Bristle Bird at our house yesterday, pleased because if it was
it would bring my year list to 100 - sad because we had taken off all
the curtains to clean the place top to bottom and it flew into a freshly
cleaned window.
However...a very likely case of misidentification, and having no camera
on the day I was wondering, would a RBB be living in burnt out habitat
like Kinglake - formerly tall we forest? There are very few pockets of
unburnt bush, mainly along gullies and waterways. If it wasn't any
suggestions as to similar birds with similar markings of similar size
that have also the distinct "ruffled" belly feathers of a RBB?
Cheers,
Tim Connell (novice)
Kinglake
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