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Identification of Tittifers (serious birders delete)

To: birding-aus <>, Peter Ewin <>
Subject: Identification of Tittifers (serious birders delete)
From: Kevin and Lizzie <>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:31:35 +1030
They strike me as some sort of Tanager.

Kevin Stracey

On 23 March 2011 20:35, Peter Ewin <> wrote:

>
> I have given a warning but hopefully someone can quickly answer this
> question which has been driving me crazy.
> As a father of two toddlers (one of who loves looking at bird books) I am a
> regular watcher of "In the Night Garden". At various stages (and
> particularly near the end) four birds called the tittifers (this is the best
> image I could find - is this on a fellow B-A Picasso site?
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9qL_erkSvLDkgJv2v_OUwA). I regularly
> get asked what the birds are - and am fine with the Hoopoe, Turaco and
> Toucan. However, I have no idea what the four small birds at top left are. A
> search of the web provides no answer - Wikipedia has Shaft-tailed Finch
> (which appears to be another name for Long-tailed Finch) and used to have
> Blue Lorikeet (which is not correct either). I had a thought it might be one
> of the South American Bellbirds (Cotinga) but looking up HBW it doesn't look
> right. The colour and size may have been altered (as has happened with the
> other birds) though they seem to a wattle just above the white throat.
> Does anyone have any idea what these birds are - otherwise I am going to
> sit and look through every plate of HBW until I find out what it is.
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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