Whose nest?

["Ross Macfarlane \(TPG\)" <>]

I’m not much for identifying nests but if it’s Mallee Cliffs, I would think olive-backed orioles would be uncommon.

 

At my grandparents’ place on the Murray near the Wakool junction, so southeast of Mallee Cliffs, I don’t remember Noisy friarbirds but they certainly got Little friarbirds. Also blue-faced honeyeaters, which my grandmother always railed at for their unrelenting attacks on her apricots.

 

But I don’t believe Mallee Cliffs takes in river redgum or box country so I would be looking at Mallee species. If it’s a honeyeater the most common species in that area would include white-eared, yellow-plumed, brown-headed, singing and spiny-cheeked, along with yellow-throated miners and red wattlebirds.

 

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Could I put in word for Olive-backed Oriole? Open weave nest, even if perhaps unfinished, looks familiar.

 

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:24 PM Dick Turner <> wrote:

Andy and others,

Yes Noisy does have a western limit. I had to refer to the new guide to see that Little Friarbird does occur a little further west.

I certainly saw Noisies along the Lachlan River.

And perhaps i should have added that the smaller honeyeaters have a smaller nest compared with the eucalypt leaf in the image--and they have smaller fibres like grass--and are so refined that they are almost transparent.

 

 

regards, Dick Turner

 

On 26/10/2018 5:25 PM, Andy Burton wrote:

I was thinking the same, Dick. Do NFs reach that far west?

 

Andy

On 26 Oct 2018, at 2:46 pm, Dick Turner <m("bigpond.com","rj.turner");" target="_blank">> wrote:

 

reply all and Robin and Rupert,

A cup shaped nest, situated in the outer, pendulous branchlets of a eucalypt, made from fibres that might be strips of bark, reminds me of the nest of a Noisy Friarbird.

 

Dick Turner

 

On 26/10/2018 8:34 AM, Robin and Rupert Irwin wrote:

Can anyone out there please identify who made this intricate nest.  It was photographed by a friend in the Mallee Cliffs NP.

 

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