Common Bronzewing perhaps?
John Leonard
2008/7/23 Paul T. <>:
> Howdy All,
>
> This is a somewhat strange ID request. On Friday morning I was heading up
> to Bowral. I'd gone through Gungahlin, turned right and was heading along
> Horse Park Dr (I think?) towards the big overpass on the Federal Highway.
> Just after I'd turned right on to that road a bird flew across in front of
> me. A fairly non-descript colouration of a couple of shades of greyish
> brown but with quite chunky in build. It looked to be about the length of a
> Red Wattle Bird, but was much broader in the body. The thing that attracted
> my attention was the method of flight, something I had never come across
> before. After each flap of it's wings it folded them completely back to
> it's body, looking like a bird would do when sitting on a branch (if you
> know what I mean), then snap them out again for a flap, then back completely
> closed. While I've seen Rosellas do this after ever few wingbeats, this one
> did it every wing beat. It almost looked like it shouldn't be flying as
> more of it's time was spent with wings folded than with the wings actually
> opened. I have never seen a bird fly like this before, so I am wondering
> what bird it was? I didn't get that good a look at the bird other than
> basic colour and chunkiness of build, so there is no chance of me IDing it
> from a book. Is that flight pattern something unique enough to identify it?
>
> Yes I realise that there are some here who will feel I am wasting time even
> asking, and I do apologise to those who feel that way. I just couldn't work
> out how else I could find out what the bird was. I'd love to search it out
> and see it flying again as it just looked so "wrong" while in flight.
> Totally fascinating.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul T.
> Higgins, ACT
>
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