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Thornbills

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Subject: Thornbills
From: "Cilla Kinross" <>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:47:36 +1100
We have those four thornbills - brown, yellow, striated, buff-rumped on the
university farm at Orange in the windbreaks but the buff-rumped have
disappeared in the last year (along with the speckled warblers
unfortunately).

I find the brown thornbill alarm (grating) call can also be confused with
the white-browed scrubwren who share the habitat (the more shrubby
windbreaks).  Can someone hint at the difference - my feeling is that the
brown thornbill's is slightly more delicate, less gruff?

Cilla



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