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ID help

To: "Mark Clayton" <>, "'Canberra Birds'" <>
Subject: ID help
From: "Jack & Andrea Holland" <>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:58:19 +1000
Mark, it’s rather similar to the one seen at Pine Island S during the autumn/winter birds bus trip on 27 May (see write up on p5 of the June Gang-gang).  I certainly couldn’t recall seeing such plumage.
 
Jack Holland
 
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Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] ID help
 

Robin,

 

Your bird is a Golden Whistler going in to adult male plumage for the first time. It takes the male 3 years (from banding studies) to attain full adult plumage so this bird is in its second year. You are lucky to see one in this plumage, I don’t think I ever have even after banding many hundreds of Golden Whistlers.

 

Cheers,

Mark

 

From: Robin Hide [
Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2012 3:49 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] ID help

 

Beside Lake Ginninderra (west side) this morning, this small bird was calling repeatedly from a bare tree. Slightly larger (?) than a Jacky Winter (I think), and the yellowish wash quite marked. From another angle (almost directly below),the chin seemed whiter.
Grateful for any identification suggestions.
Robin Hide


LGid

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