unknown bird

[Vicki Powys <>]

> on 17/9/01 9:46 PM, Ric &Sanja Armstrong at  wrote:
> 
> > I hope you can tell me a bit more about this bird, i found it in my fully 
> > locked up house, so no idear how it got in but, this bird was about 10cm in 
> > length, it had a black beak, 1 1/2 cm a gray head its back was a greeny pecock 
> > colour and black feet and the hole chest was white with a zebra like  bronze 
> > colour across it's chest, it was beutifull, was it a rear bird?,
> > and is it unusual to have seen one in Queensland on the sunshine coast?
> > 
> > p.s. it recooped in a shoe box for a hour and i had given it  some water with 
> > my nails and in half a hour it flew a way,
> > it was so quiet i didn't even hear the wings, so think it mite be a 
> > Honeyeater,green backed :- Glycichaera Fallax am i right ?
> > love to her from you 
> > Sanja Armstrong  
> > 
> > 
> > Ric & Sanja Armstrong
> > Email: 
> > 

This sounds more like one of the Bronze-Cuckoos, all of which occur in your area.

Vicki Powys