canberrabirds

W-b Cuckoo-shrike at Lake Ginn

To: John Brannan <>, "'Canberra Birds'" <>
Subject: W-b Cuckoo-shrike at Lake Ginn
From: Kevin Windle <>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:50:03 +1000
John's observation seems to confirm my own suspected WB CS, dark morph, at this 
very spot on Sat 7 August, at 4.00 p.m. I didn't report it as I couldn't get 
very good views and was not at all sure, never having seen this sp. before.

Kevin Windle

-----Original Message-----
From: John Brannan 
Sent: Sunday, 29 August 2010 11:34 AM
To: 'Canberra Birds'
Subject: W-b Cuckoo-shrike at Lake Ginn

The first thing I heard yesterday afternoon as I opened the car door at
the McDermott Place carpark on Lake Ginninderra was an Olive-backed
Oriole calling. While tracking down what turned out to be a pair in a
nearby tree, I came across a dark-morph White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike,
only the second of these that I've seen in Canberra. The orioles were
eventually chased away by a particularly belligerent White-plumed
Honeyeater. The other observation of note was a single Nankeen Night
Heron in the usual stand of casuarinas up towards Ginninderra Drive.
There were probably more skulking in the branches, but I find them to be
frustratingly difficult to spot for such a large bird.

John Brannan



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