Hi David
It is possible that you saw the slaty backed thornbill. I say this as when
I lived in Alice I wondered how come I wasn't seeing them and it was because
I was putting too much emphasis on the eye colour. PIzzey shows the eye as
being bright red but HANZAB shows a brown and gives a description of reddish
brown. I brought my problem of not seeing them to this forum and somebody
who I can't remember alerted me to the eye problem and sent me some photos
of slaty backs.
Since then I have got HANZAB and the contrast in the illustrations in Pizzey
and HANZAB is striking.
Gary
On 16 May 2011 17:45, Steve Potter <> wrote:
> Nice report Dave but, I must say I was a bit disappointed as it seems that
> your recent travel and adventure and seeing the gloriousness of our beloved
> country at its finest and intended ticking of unseen (by you) birds had
> absolutely no mention of "a legitimate need to know about the distribution
> of particular species" and seemed to unashamedly include "that your bird
> list of itself has become some kind of contest or somehow important" and
> worst of all "might be fun!!!". Therefore according to the scientific world
> of seriousness I deem your report "a load of twaddle".
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> And I am very upset you didn't invite me...
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> Steve Potter.
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> off to examine the legitimate need to know about the repeated formation of
> waves and their characteristics with a highly advanced piece of foam and
> fibreglass with ABSOLUTLY no intention of having fun....
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> Trip report Outback SA and Alice Springs
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> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=%2Bfr
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> David Kowalick]
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> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/extract-mesg.cgi?a=bir
> ding-aus&m=2011-05&i=4DD0A725.8030901%40fishgate.org.au> ]
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> Trip report Outback SA and Alice Springs
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> David Kowalick <>
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> Mon, 16 May 2011 13:55:09 +0930
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> Eventually I heard the unmistakable call of emu-wrens again and was a led
> merry chase through the densest part of the spinifex catching fleeting
> glimpses of the birds but no 'tickable views.' I know this has been a
> subject of keen debate on the Birding Aus site lately so won't revisit all
> that here and now.
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