Hi Chris,
Just some help with the ID of the birds you are unsure of from Nurragingy
Reserve.Some of these birds are juveniles which can be tricky to identify, and
are not often illustrated in field guides.
The Olive-backed Oriole is right, it looks like a juvenile or immature.The
Jacky Winter is a Rufous Whistler, maybe a juvenile too. A Jacky Winter would
flick its white-sided tail from side to side. It would not have streaks on its
breast either, (though a juvenile Jacky Winter may have a mottled breast) and
the jizz of the bird is whistler like (thickish head and the way the bird is
perched)The Emerald Dove is a young Spotted Dove. Young Spotted Doves don't
have spotting around the neck like this one. You can see white under the bird's
tail and well and the greyish spotting on the wings starting to appear.
Well done on picking up the Regent Honeyeaters as well.Michael Ramsey
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:24:14 +1100
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Regent Honeyeater - Nurragingy Reserve, Doonside
> NSW
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> I was at Nurraginy Reserve yesterday and what an extraordinary spot it is.
> Standing overlooking an open drain by a wire net fence (look for the bottle)
> for 40 minutes from 3pm on a grey overcast day - birds came from everywhere
> and not at all ones I expected to see.
>
> The Regent Honeyeater kept me riveted to the spot but without moving more
> than a metre I photographed on the fly about a dozen birds. Most already
> have been mentioned but there was also Sacred Kingfisher, Dove - possibly
> Emerald, Crested Shrike-tit, Jacky Winter - maybe, Fan-tailed Cuckoo. Check
> them out below and any help with the queries would be appreciated.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/cgregory123/NurragingyReserveSydney#
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> Chris Gregory
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>
> 2010/1/4 Alistair McKeough <>
>
> > The Regent Honeyeater sited by Edwin Vella and subsequently by varoius
> > people over the past couple of weeks was seen by several birders at
> > Nurragingy Reserve this morning at about 9am.
> >
> > The easiest way to the area it's been seen is to enter the reserve, park at
> > "Kookaburra" and follow the educational walking path to the northern
> > perimiter of the park and follow the path along the fenceline until you see
> > a spot where the fence is down. The bird was seen this morning about 15
> > metres further along the path. Other fun birds around were Brown
> > Honeyeater,
> > Mistltoebird, Eastern Spinebill, Weebill and Spotted Pardalote.
> >
> > Alistair
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