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Brown Magpie

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Subject: Brown Magpie
From: Koren Mitchell <>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:36:11 -0800 (PST)
There is a winery on the Bellerine Peninsula near Geelong called "Brown Magpie" 
which apparently has a family of magpies with brown-and-white colouration 
living on the property. (I've been there once but didn't see the magpies - nice 
wine though).

Cheers, Koren
 
Koren Mitchell
Albury, Australia


----- Original Message ----
From: Roger Giller <>
To: Birding-Aus <>
Sent: Monday, 19 November, 2007 12:15:16 PM
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Brown Magpie

Hi All,

 I have just returned from a 4 month, 24000 km caravan trip to Qld,
 NT,WA and SA.  It was not specifically a birding trip but we ticked 62 new
 species. I need time to sort out all the observations, and will
 eventually post some numbers etc., but thought I would start with this.

On our first night out of Sydney we stopped at Burrendong Dam. Among
 the many birds around the caravan park was  an Australian Magpie with an
 unusual chocolate brown colouration on the wings. I managed a couple of
 photos, of which this is the best. More surprising was that a few days
 later we saw another one with similar colouration at Charleville. The
 photo of this one is also on ABID.

 I have seen lots of Magpies of all ages but never with this
 colouration. We did not see any others like this on the trip, although there 
were
 the "white-backed" race in the expected places.

There were plenty of "normal" coloured Magpies in both locations. 

Is this unusual. I had a quick Google but found nothing specific on
 Brown Magpies.

Regards

Roger Giller.

http://www.aviceda.org/abid/images/data/1195392272.jpg
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