Re: Fuscous Honeyeater

[Jack & Andrea Holland <>]

Julie, I’m very happy that I was able to help you find them.

 

And your photo illustrates very well the things that differentiate them from the White-plumed Honeyeater, the very indistinct plume, the smudged eye and the lack of a yellow face.  The yellow gape also indicates it’s a non-breeding bird.

 

And they do like bathing/drinking in pools or water baths, a couple of Julian Robinson’s photos I showed with my bird of the month talk in May showed them in a very similar situation (probably taken on a COG walk I attended).

 

My best wishes for finding them in other spots, their call is the main feature by which you normally pick them up, but they may not be doing the diagnostic call at this time of year.

 

Jack Holland

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Re: Fuscous Honeyeater

 

Thanks to everyone who responded to my email regarding the Fuscous Honeyeater. It was an informative and fascinating exercise!

 

Many people gave me valuable suggestions as to where I might find them and others provided me with ​extra information and data regarding the species.

 

 

I followed up on Duncan McCaskill's information (via Jack Holland ... many thanks Jack & Duncan!) that there were many on Percival Hill.

 

After what looked like being a non-productive walk as far as the Fuscous was concerned, I finally found many birds  bathing (for some it was more like dive-bombing!!) late in the afternoon and a fair number of them were fuscous and white-naped honeyeaters.

 

I was quite a distance away, but did manage some very ordinary photos. (one attached of a fuscous & white naped...)

 

 

Next I will follow up on some of the other suggested locations.

 

 

Thanks to all.

 

Cheers

Julie

 

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Julie Clark <> wrote:

Hi All,

 

I saw only my second ever Fuscous Honeyeater yesterday at Mount Rogers (previous one 2 years ago in Harrison).

 

I note that on the COG website it says that they are a Common breeding species.

 

If that is the case, where should I be going to see them? Am I just not very observant and missing them amongst all the yellow-faced honeyeaters or are they in fact not so common anymore?

 

Any information would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

Julie

 

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Julie Clark