Hi all As soon as I saw the Jim’s pictures from Karratha, forwarded by Margaret https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_bendon_1957/13504643964/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_bendon_1957/12870582744/ I recognised this as the bird I saw at Namadgi Visitors Centre on Sun 23 February this year. OK, not the same individual, but I am now happy to make a species identification of my Namadgi unknown! The attached email posted to the chatline contains my description of the Namadgi bird, identified at the time as either an female/immature White-winged Triller or a female Rufous Songlark, and mentioned as either possibility by Jack Holland in the March Gang-Gang Excellent pictures of these alternative species from Geoffrey Dabb and others didn’t completely resolve the issue. I was leaning towards the Songlark, but that is a bird with which I am not familiar, and there was a male Triller reasonably nearby, which confused things. But the pictures of the Karratha bird fit very well. The Namadgi bird was the same in its features, and just a few cm smaller and with a brown bill, indicating a female. Sometimes the loop is closed! Steve From: Mark Clayton [
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Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Bird for ID Hi Margaret, The bird is an adult male Rufous Songlark. Cheers, Mark This is not my photo, but the author would appreciate a bit of help with ID. I believe it was shot in the NW of WA, but am not certain. I can’t decide between cuckoo-shrike or juv white-winged triller. Many thanks Margaret Leggoe https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_bendon_1957/13504643964/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_bendon_1957/12870582744/ No virus found in this message.
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There was a good number of bush birds this morning at the Namadgi Visitors Centre, as the haze cleared under the sun. A group of about 15 Dusky Woodswallows was very active, and included several fledged young. The most interesting sighting was a single Diamond Firetail. There was also a slim brown bird that I couldn’t identify. It was active in the canopy of the open woodland, but flew down to the shrub layer at times. A little smaller than the woodswallows, which it associated with briefly, and slimmer – say 16 cm? Head, shoulders and (especially) wings were mottled/scalloped/patterned brown; breast and belly were very pale, with faint streaks on the throat. Faint brown eye-line. Tail was clearly notched and rounded (a better description is that both halves of the tail, either side of the notch, were rounded). No other distinguishing features. Female/immature White-winged Triller is a possibility, but the patterning wasn’t restricted to the wing-coverts, and the tail doesn’t seem to fit. There was a male White-winged Triller feeding on the ground some distance away. Female Rufous Songlark is another possibility, but that’s a bird I don’t know, and I couldn’t see any reddening on the rump, although some web images do show a notched tail . Do Rufous Songlarks spend time in the canopy? Or can anyone suggest a third possibility? Steve No virus found in this message.
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