There again this morning, mainly in the eastern (hope I’ve
got it right this time) paddock. Feeding in company with a BFCS
from which easily distinguishable by size apart from anything else. This is
the first non-dark-morph robusta I’ve seen in the Canberra area.
Just a couple of points: It certainly lacks the clean whitish
throat/breast of the northern subspecies. HANZAB has a long and
complicated account of the plumage variations. This, it seems, is a ‘PALEST
INTERMEDIATE’, which differs from a true ‘LIGHT MORPH’ in
that it has ‘a few scattered black feathers, most often on lower throat
but also on upper breast, ear-coverts and sides of neck’. I’ve
chosen a couple of snaps that illustrate this.
