Evening all,
Just back from an eight day trip to PNG with a couple of days in Cairns (trip
report to follow) - had a great time, though birding is ridiculously difficult.
A couple of questions about a couple of IDs.
We visited Hasties Swamp near Atherton on Monday and cranes could be heard on
the private land behind the swamp, but could only be vieiwed (without a scope)
from the road over the hill. It is probably a long shot but does anyone have a
potential ID on these - my thoughts are Sarus, based on location (and comments
in Weineke) but any local knowledge would be appreciated (if both likely then I
will have to leave as unknown)
The other concerned a fantail seen at Brown River near Port Moresby. We were
looking at a group of birds in lowland swamp forest west of Brown River with
our guide Daniel Wakra, Black Thicket and Northern Fantails were present but
another fantail was also there, which Daniel called as a Friendly Fantail. It
wasn't until I got back that evening that I looked at guides and this would
appear to be an exceptionally low altitude for this species. The bird certainly
looked like the picture in Beehler et al. and behaved much more like a typical
fantail (i.e. certainly not like a Northern with much tail fanning and
movement) and there were was no rufous present (the thought was possible
juvenile Chestnut-bellied but this would also appear to be too high as well).
The problem is no other species seems to occur at this altitude and so I was
wondering if anyone has any experience with this or other species of Fantails
in this are/habitat.
Cheers,
Peter
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