Certainly interesting, Matt. Those are possibly hybrids - a few being based in that Bowen park area, and occasionally reported, under various labellings. (You’d need an expert to go into the details - to me they seem to lack a bit of red, and some length in the upper bill. You can probably find a spectrum of variation across individual bird)
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Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013 11:44 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Photography Course Birds - Long Billed Corella
Hi All
My younger, 14 year old brother, did a photography course in Manuka (near the lake) last Wed, Thurs and Fri. While he was wandering around, he encountered a few interesting birds, and took a few interesting photos. One such bird he photographed were long-billed corellas. These guys flew into a drain with some little corellas, then proceeded to drink and bathe. Having never seen a long-billed corella, I must admit I am rather jealous of him.
I must apologise about the file sizes. I wasn't able to compress them to 100K and below. They are a little bit over.
Matt.
