canberrabirds

Id??

To: 'Julie Clark' <>, 'COG Chatline' <>
Subject: Id??
From: Mark Clayton <>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:02:15 +0000

Hi Julie,

 

How about a Painted Button-quail? As you say it could also have been a Brown Quail but I think PB-q is more likely.

 

Cheers,

Mark

 

From: Julie Clark [
Sent: Monday, 5 December 2016 7:24 PM
To: COG Chatline
Subject: [canberrabirds] Id??

 

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm not sure that I have enough information for anyone to be able to assist, but here goes anyway ...

 

At Mulligan's today I had a very brief view of a bird. I was watching something else and as I started to move a bird flew from the ground, no more than a few metres from my feet, hidden by the mid- height grass. It flew very low above the ground and landed on the ground again 50-75 m away, but was lost to my line of sight. All I observed was that the bird was about the size of a starling, appeared dark in colour from the rear, short tail, rapid wing movement and it look stocky in build. It didn't call as it flew.

 

I don't have much idea of what it was. I thought of brown quail, but have never seen one in flight, so don't know if that's a possibility. No photos ...

 

Any suggestions? I was in the middle of the reserve - not very close to any of the dams.

 

Cheers

Julie


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Julie Clark

 

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