Re: FW: [canberrabirds] White-cheeked Honeyeater

[shorty <>]

For some reason i cannot reply all from Philip's mail so using Geoffery's post.

It looks like it has white on some tail feathers but not all.

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

A confusing pair.  In Surgeon-General White’s account of the First Fleet at Port Jackson, 1789, the WCH was describe as the female of the ‘New Holland Creeper’.

 

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] White-cheeked Honeyeater

 

Last week i posted about seeing 2 of them with one looking a little odd. Yesterday i dropped down to look for them again but only found the odd one.

 

At one point a New Holland landed on a low branch and called, then the odd WC flew to it and the NH fed it.

 

I am now starting to wonder if this odd one is a hybrid from the WC and NH breeding ?

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