Bowerbird

[Mark Clayton <>]

As I said in my reply to Christine, I reckon it is a bird just finishing its moult to full adult plumage. I don't think there is anything wrong with the bird. Many adult birds are finishing their annual moult about now and as it takes a male Satin Bowerbird 7 years (known from banding data) to attain their all blue plumage, the timing is about right.

Mark

On 18/02/2018 10:54 AM, Philip Veerman wrote:

Strange picture. Doesn’t look normal (or typical). Is this some disease or maybe a mite infestation or just an extreme of new feathers coming in and what we see here is feather shafts of growing feathers. If it is this, it is odd to be so obvious. I suspect Bowerbirds have very dense feathers.

 

I had an all blue male SBB in my neighbour’s garden yesterday.

 

Philip

 

From: Christine [m("gmail.com","christine.d9933");">]
Sent: Sunday, 18 February, 2018 10:31 AM
To: COG chatline
Subject: [canberrabirds] Bowerbird

 

Seen at ANBG yesterday. Is this normal???

 

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