Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your analysis of the photos and the bird. An aberrant photo, and
not an exoctic, or an aberrant Aus species! A female Satin or a Leaden, it is
then.
I asked for your opinion because my poor brain does not cope with a) being able
to see past and through a poor photo of an exoctic-looking bird to what lies
beneath, and b) reading statements, even though based on an expertise well
beyond mine, that it is a Leaden or a Broad-billed without knowing exactly why.
I may well be wrong about being 'certain' it is not a Leaden, but now I know
why!
Many thanks.
Judith
Brisbane
0437549301
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Subject: Inisfail bird ID
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:38:27 +1100
G’day Judith great to hear from you, Firstly it’s really poor image quality,
unbelievably poor resolution and over saturated, so that is influencing the
impression a lot, pixels can mutate under these conditions to give all sorts of
false impressions. It sort of looks like a heavy piece of impressionistic water
colour painting.Contrary to impressions my money/house would be on female Satin
or Leaden Flycatcher. If seeing is believing then it looks as though there is
some warm colour in the wing and whitish tips only to the inner most greater
coverts, if all of that is real then the bird is a female Satin Flycatcher. The
only thing against Satin would be time of year in the tropics but it’s not
impossible. If the bird was a youngish Myiagra with a worn wing showing
brownish(warm coloured) you would be more likely to see the white tips in the
lesser coverts towards the bend of the wing, infact you would probably see it
even in a poor photo. So the question is are we seeing what’s really there, if
so it’s a Satin for mine otherwise one of the two Satin or Leaden. When faced
with an extremely poor photo of a Monarch that gives odd impressions, the odds
are stacked heavily towards it being in reality an extremely poor photo of a
Monarch that gives odd impressions rather than an exotic, if you get what I
mean. I was going to let it go through to the keeper but will always answer a
direct questioning. Cheers Jeff. From: Judith Hoyle
Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 10:54 PM
To: ;
Subject: FW: [Birding-Aus] Inisfail bird ID Hi Danny and Jeff,
What are your views on this bird? Certain it is not a Leaden and do not think
it is a Broad-billed as suggested bt Chris Sanderson.
Is this an Austraian first or an aberrant Aus species??
Regards
Judith
Brisbane
0437549302
> From:
> To:
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:01:07 +1100
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Inisfail bird ID
>
> Hi all,
>
> One of my colleagues from work has sent me a number of photo prints.
>
> They are from his mother who has been a keen backyard birder for many years
> in Inisfail FNQ. She sent me a number of photos of birds to be IDd and I had
> no problems with them apart from this bird, which is proving to be a bit more
> of a puzzle. See the 2 photos of it on the following link:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/107873536676981712804
>
> Unfortunately the photos are very poor quality, which doesn't help with the
> ID.
>
> The bird arrived in her back yard recently after a cyclone and the only other
> time she has seen them was also during/ after a cyclone 3/4 years ago.
>
> A possible immature Leaden Flycatcher?
>
> I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts as to what it might be
>
> cheers
>
> Charlie Andrews
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