canberrabirds

Small bird ID please

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Subject: Small bird ID please
From: David Nicholls <>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:39:40 +1100
Just saw a small brown bird that I have not seen before in my garden in Deakin.

About the same size and form as a silvereye, hopping actively around on the 
ground and in the undergrowth.  Mid to darkish grey-brown back and cap, paler 
throat/chest, no sign of any bright colours, straight tail with rounded 
'corners' and a slight "V" dent in it.  I noticed its dark eyes. Short beak 
like a Silvereye.  I could not see its rump as I was looking down on it through 
a window.

Not a Silvereye (darker, no colour, not in shrub foliage), not a wren (tail 
straight not pointing up, shorter).

No obvious ID from the 'Birds of the ACT'.  I can't rule it out as a Silvereye, 
but I have not seen any of the thousands of Sivereyes I have seen here hopping 
around on the ground like this, and none as dark on head or back.

Advice appreciated.

David Nicholls
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