canberrabirds

bird ID

To: "'Jenny Rees'" <>, "'Canberrabirds'" <>
Subject: bird ID
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 18:26:02 +1000
Female logrunner?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jenny Rees  On Behalf Of Jenny Rees
Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2010 5:40 PM
To: Canberrabirds
Subject: bird ID

We have headed north for a few days and have been walking in the Border 
Ranges and Nightcap National Parks. Apart from the usual scrub turkeys, 
spinebills, wrens etc we have seen a family of Rufous Scrub-Birds, a 
Golden Whistler, a Lewins Honeyeater, a Pale Eastern Robin or 2 and a 
pair of Whip-Birds having a barney on the track right in front of us! We 
also saw 2 other birds that we are having trouble identifying - they 
were slightly smaller than the Rufous Scrub-Birds with the same basic 
dark brown colouring but with a red-brown throat. Their tails were much 
shorter than the Scrub Birds tails and they had 2 quite distinct - 
darker brown/black - lines along their wings. They weren't as timid as 
the Scrub-Birds - just ignored me and kept rummaging about in the leaf 
litter. Any suggestions??

Thanks

Jenny Rees

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