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Error in Pizzey and Knight app?

To: Chris Gregory <>, John Graff <>
Subject: Error in Pizzey and Knight app?
From: martin cachard <>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 22:21:20 +0000
hi Chris, 
there are some old records of Yellow-legged Flycatcher in the Atherton Tablelands, none of which convince me that they are anything but erroneous...
it makes no sense at all to me that this Cape York Peninsula/New Guinea species would occur there - much like the number of Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo records for the Atherton Tablelands as well !!
cheers, 

martin cachard

trinity beach, cairns, fnq


From: Chris Gregory <>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 December 2018 10:47 PM
To: John Graff
Cc: Tony Ashton; ; martin cachard
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Error in Pizzey and Knight app?
 
Yes in regards to the Yellow-legged Flycatcher, the text in the PIizzey App states under Range and Status - “possibly also Atherton Tablelands”. No other Field Guide picks this up. I wonder did an “erroneous” Lake Barrine photo trigger this or were there other independent sightings?
Chris Gregory 

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 8:06 pm, John Graff <> wrote:
There's a few photo errors through that app that I've noticed or had pointed out; e.g. first non-breeding Gull-billed Tern image is a Whiskered Tern, the only non-breeding plumage image for White-winged Black Tern is a Whiskered Tern, and I'm fairly sure the first Collared Sparrowhawk image is a goshawk. There's probably others floating around - a lot of photos to curate!

The sound recording of "typical" Masked Owls calls sound like a Barn Owl too

Cheers,
John



From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of martin cachard <>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 December 2018 8:28 AM
To: Tony Ashton
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Error in Pizzey and Knight app?
 
and there's another error too in the same app...

a perfectly good Fan-tailed Cuckoo is captioned as a Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo... it's any wonder some birders make false claims with their ID's of Chgestnut-breated Cuckoos!!

wishing everyone on here a safe and very Merry Christmas too!!

cheers, 

martin cachard

trinity beach, cairns, fnq


From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Tony Ashton <>
Sent: Monday, 24 December 2018 9:21 PM
To: Allan Richardson
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Error in Pizzey and Knight app?
 
No surprise there. Lake Barrine must be hundreds of kms too far south for Yellow-legged.

Festive Greetings
Tony

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 6:50 PM Allan Richardson <> wrote:
Yes Peter - the bird in question is a Pale Yellow Robin race nana.

Regards,

Allan

On 24 Dec 2018, at 7:02 pm, Peter Morgan <> wrote:

In the photos in the Pizzey and Knight digital app one, listed as a Yellow-legged Flycatcher, labelled 
           Adult. Lake Barrine. QLD. Peter Nunn 
has orange around the eye and looks very much like the Pale Yellow Robin. 
The other photos of the Yellow Legged Flycatcher do not show the orange around the eye.
 
I checked with Dr Greg Clancy and his comment was that it appeared to be the northern race of the Pale Yellow Robin. 

Comments?  

Peter Morgan

Merry Christmas 
 

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