Well done to Mark Clayton, Steve Holliday, Benj
Whitworth, Dave Sampson and Muriel Brookfield who all recognised an immature
Gouldian Finch. Quite tricky I thought and not something I could have
done cold, I must say.
I thought you might have been put off by the ‘central’
association. Rather surprisingly, it seems the only real ‘central
Australian finch’ is the Painted, being the only one apart from the
widespread Zebra that is found in Alice Springs. [Map from Schodde &
Mason ‘Directory of Australian Birds’]
