Yesterday Elizabeth showed me some mystery feathers she had
gathered on a walk towards Square Rock, Corin Dam Road. The bird had
evidently been taken and (mostly) eaten by a predator, possibly a cat or
(although this seems unlikely) a wolverine. The primaries were mid-brown
on the upperside and underneath mainly bright yellow. It appears to be a
female or young Satin Bowerbird, the yellow – which puzzled me – being a
feature noted in HANZAB: “Remiges
[below], greyish brown with prominent pale yellow inner edges which
combine to form broad and diffuse pale-yellow panel across centre of wing’.
