You are correct, it is a juvenile
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike and not too long out of the nest. Peter Marsack will
be interested in this photo as he is doing some illustrations of juvenile
birds. I will forward your original message to him.
Cheers,
Mark
From:
Margaret Leggoe [
Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2010 1:36
PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] FW:
White-browed woodswallow at NVC
Well, I suppose it was a juvenile black
faced cuckoo shrike that I saw. With all this talk of cuckoos around, I
am beginning to wonder.
From:
Margaret Leggoe [
Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2010 1:24
PM
To:
Subject: White-browed woodswallow
at NVC
This
morning there was at least one white-browed woodswallow at the Namadgi
Visitors’ Centre. I saw one, but that was on two occasions, about
50 metres apart, so it may not have been the same bird.
Also
saw a pair of leaden flycatchers, numerous noisy friar birds with dependent
young, a black-faced cuckoo-shrike trying to feed a juvenile with a large
hard beetle which it spat out, and superb fairy wren feeding a juvenile.
Margaret
Leggoe
