canberrabirds

ID Please

To: "'Julian Teh'" <>, "'COG Chatline'" <>
Subject: ID Please
From: "Nick Payne" <>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:50:02 +1100
Looks and behaves like a Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike.
http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birds/cuckoShrikes/blackFacedCuc
kooShrike.htm. The wing shuffling is characteristic. One of the old
bushmen's names for them was "Wing-shuffler".

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Teh 
> Sent: Friday, 7 November 2008 16:04
> To: COG Chatline
> Subject: [canberrabirds] ID Please
> 
> 
> This disgustingly bad photograph was taken outside my Red Hill window
> on October 3 in the early morning. there were three of them, and they
> were doing a strange dance. 1 would lift up a single wing, and flap it,
> then put it down and flap the other. all the while making a
> 'ttrraawwkk' trilling note, almost kookaburra-like. going up to start
> then descending. does anyone have any ideas? I was thinking maybe a
> woodswallow...
> thanks,
> Julian Teh



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