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ID help needed

To: Katrina Knight <>
Subject: ID help needed
From: Rob Geraghty <>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:07:11 -0800 (PST)
It looks like a figbird to me.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=121

Regards,
Rob

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Rob Geraghty


--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Katrina Knight <> wrote:

From: Katrina Knight <>
Subject: ID help needed
To: 
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 6:47 PM

Hello,

I've been having a great time on my trip to Australia, but the identification 
of some birds is defeating me. On 28 February I saw a bird from the platform of 
the North Wollongong train station as I was waiting to go back to Sydney after 
the pelagic trip. It seemed to be all dark - kind of bluish/purplish-black with 
big pale eye-rings. I thought it ought to be easy to find in the field guide 
when I got a chance to look, but even after looking multiple times, I have 
absolutely no idea what it is. I've uploaded a picture of it - 
<http://files.myopera.com/kknight/albums/709813/mystery%20bird.jpg> If anyone 
could make any suggestions about its identification, I'd appreciate it.

Also, I was looking at shorebirds at the north end of the Esplanade in Cairns 
this afternoon and saw a nice selection of birds that I'm not sure I've 
identified correctly. Rain does not make identifying shorebirds any easier. Are 
the birds pictured here 
<http://files.myopera.com/kknight/albums/709813/shorebirds%201.jpg> Bar-tailed 
Godwits? I followed them around for a while, but they just walked around and 
never flew to show me their tails. On a more positive note, the Laughing Gull 
was still there yesterday. I got a good look at it despite the rain. I think I 
spotted it again today, but it was a long way away and I was headed the other 
direction. I didn't really come to Australia to look at a Laughing Gull after 
all. :)

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Katrina Knight

Reading, PA, USA

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