Oh well
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Monday, 3 March 2008 8:44 AM
To: 'Julian Robinson'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Coast and ID please
Looks to me like our old friend the f Golden Whistler,
Julian. My pics are regrettably unsorted but in the middle is one from
Warks Road. Note patch of white near wing shoulder. Clues :
large red-brown (whistler) eye, short thick bill, rather sluggish, inquisitive
twig-and-leaf gleaner in denser veg, common mover through suburbs here in
Autumn/Winter g
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From: Julian Robinson [
Sent: Monday, 3 March 2008 12:02 AM
To: canberrabirds chatline
Subject: Coast and ID please
I'd be grateful for help on the attached bird that was at
the Bot Gardens - I really have no idea. I got the impression it was small
but it may have been larger I guess up to Robin or Whistler size.
Basically grey all over with greenish-yellow in the wing
and a tuft of white near the shoulder. Legs were grey or reddish depending on
the light (see photo) and eye was dark reddish. It perched briefly
outside the bird-hide then I found it later feeding on insects in bark at
head height.
Julian
