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Re: Unusual Warbler? at Bayswater Bird Sanctuary Perth

To: <>, "birdswa email list" <>, "Frank O'Connor" <>
Subject: Re: Unusual Warbler? at Bayswater Bird Sanctuary Perth
From: "Bill Rutherford" <>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:11:06 +0800
Hi Everyone,

Bill Rutherford here.

I have just got off the phone from John and can add some more detail to the mystery bird. It does not have a pale eye, which a striking feature of Orphean warbler and noticeable a some range. ( per obs W. Rutherford). However first year Orpheans do not have a pale eye and like many other large sylvia warblers exhibit a dark eye. The bird does not have white outer tails feathers either which again points away from Orphean and a number of other contenders, notably the eastern lesser whitethroat. Sylvia curruca blythi. Again young and first year birds show much less white in the tail. But agian this is still noticable at some range. John also pointed out that the bird had two quite noticable pale wing bars. This feature rules out all sylvia warblers apart from Barred warbler but this does not show a dark head in any way. It does however open up the possibilty of one of the south east Asian flycather warbler group, notably the genus Seicercus. The weather here in Perth in fine but windy so efforts to see the bird today were not rewarded. I am going to try on monday morning if the weather is good.
regards

Bill Rutherford



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