Shape looks to me immediately like the Crested Bellbird, not that I know them well. I guess I would expect them in a walk-through aviary at the Alice Springs
Desert Park, not that I have been there. Looks like a perfect match to Crested Bellbird in Pizzey’s book (especially in head pattern), for which the text states “eyes yellowish” for female & immature (although in the picture it is orange). Not any bowerbird,
wrong shape and not spotted.
Philip
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Sent: Monday, 22 October, 2018 4:08 PM
To: COG-L
Subject: [canberrabirds] Bird ID
Can anyone help me with an ID of the bird below. The photo was taken last week at the Alice Springs Desert Park in a walk-through aviary. The yellow eye has me tossed. Birds in that region with yellow eyes include the Crested Bellbird
and Western Bowerbird. Could it be a juvenile of either? Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards
Lindsay Hansch
