Thank you everyone. Well, whatever it is/was, perhaps someone else will get
a shot at it one day. Thank you all for the interest you have shown and the
hints you have given me.
Margaret.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ramshaw
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2014 7:31 AM
To: Margaret Leggoe
Subject: Bird for ID please
Hi Margaret
What about a Bassian Thrush? Perhaps not quite a typical pose when on a
branch, but colours and shape look roughly similar.
Regards
Peter
On 8/04/2014 5:53 PM, Margaret Leggoe wrote:
>
> And which of the apparent bands across the throat are out of focus twigs?
>
> At the time I thought it was a starling because it was, to my
> reckoning, about that size. Crimson parrots had been in the same tree
> and were a lot bigger.
>
> *From:*Geoffrey Dabb
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 8 April 2014 2:22 PM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* FW: [canberrabirds] Bird for ID please
>
> Well, Margaret has come up with an interesting one this time. I
> understand that the forwarded image, reproduced below, is all we have.
> The question is: which of the apparent elements are significant, and
> which are illusory or misleading. The colour of the back (red arrow)
> and head is curious - it is a kind of toffee colour that does not
> match anything, except perhaps a juvenile koel. The shape of the bill
> is not distinct - it might be short and curved, provided it is not
> part-obscured by that twig. An important question is whether the
> blackish blotches (blue arrows) are part of the plumage or caused by
> some shadowing effect, and whether the background speckling (white
> arrow) is also accurately represented. Attaching weight to a short
> curved bill, a bowerbird seems more likely. It is possible the black
> could be the emergence of male adult plumage as the distribution would
> fit (inset A - a year 6 bird) - and also the pale bill. The black does
> not have the pattern of a juv starling (inset B) and the bill does not
> match. Neither the black nor the bill fits an oriole. On the other
> hand, the thin neck and small head do not fit a bowerbird, and nor
> does the absence of any green tones. On general colour alone a juv
> starling could be a contender, but that bill (shape and colour) would
> need to be discounted.
>
> *From:*Margaret Leggoe
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 8 April 2014 10:04 AM
> *To:*
> <>
> *Subject:* [canberrabirds] Bird for ID please
>
> Dear folk,
>
> At first I thought this distant bird was a starling, and took little
> notice, but then it looked somehow different. Autofocus could not cope
> with all the leaves around, and as I reached for the manual focus
> switch it flew off. Ah well, such is the lot of bird photographers.
>
> Is it a juvenile starling? The striations/speckles seem too definite a
> pattern for a starling to me.
>
> Callum Brae, 1^st April 2014.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Margaret Leggoe
>
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