Two IDs Please..

[John Harris <>]

Hi julie. First one Royal Spoonbill as you guess. Breeding plumage with head plumes and yellow eye spot.
Second one probably Spotless Crake as you also guess. Silhouette does not show plumage but Crake shape and red legs are enough for ID in my view.
John

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From: Julie Clark <>
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2014 9:18:47 PM
To: COG Chatline
Subject: [canberrabirds] Two IDs Please..

 

Hi All,

Today at Yerrabi Pond I took the attached photo ... not sure what I thought it was, but on looking at it tonight think it might be a Royal Spoonbill. I've never seen one down there before and have only seen them a couple of times before. I can't think what else it would be though.

Also, a couple of days ago at the large Forde pond I had a brief glimpse of a waterbird in the reeds. It was dark coloured with bright red legs and smaller than the moorhens and coots ... more the size of a crake (probably in between the size of a Baillon's and a Spotted - both of which I saw on the same day.)

I didn't think I'd managed a photo, but found the attached fairly useless shot when I went through the photos yesterday. My only attempt at an Id would be a Spotless Crake, but I've never seen one before and have no idea how likely that would be.

Any help with either would be appreciated.

Cheers

Julie

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Julie Clark