Hi Tun Pin Ong
An interesting point but I don't think there is any doubt this is a Pied
Currawong - from the amount of brown feathering, I'd suggest this is a young
bird, even though it has the adult's yellow eye.
Re the influx of Superb Parrots in the northern suburbs of Canberra, this has
become a more regular thing over the last few years (since 2005 I think). They
have always reached the most north western suburbs of Hall and Fraser, but for
some reason (drought?) are now coming further into Canberra.
Regards
Frank Antram
-----Original message-----
From: Tun Pin Ong
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:20:26 +1100
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Subject: Grey/Pied Currawong - Canberra
> Hi,
>
> This maybe a boring topic about Pied Currawong to some.
>
> I always thought the white crescent over base of tail near upper tail covert
> is a diagnostic feature for Pied Currawong whereas Grey Currawong have
> uniform black/grey all over near the rump.
>
> On Fri 08/01/2010 in one of Canberra NW suburb, I observed 2 individuals, but
> photographed one Currawong which did not show any signs of white at base of
> tail. Other than this, the bill shape and size lean towards Pied.
>
> Later on Mon 11/01/2010 I checked the site and there were numerous number of
> Pied Currawongs (as usual) and some showed very narrow or broken white
> crescent on base of tail. Otherwise they sang just like typical Pied. So I am
> now confused if the birds I photographed on Fri were Grey Currawong?
>
> Too bad I did not hear the bird call while taking photo of it and I was not
> familiar with Grey's call either.
>
> Is this different form of Pied Currawong or simply aberrant individuals that
> are different from the usual Pied Currawong in Sydney?
>
> Photos of the Currawong is found in following link
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/currawong/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tun Pin ONG
> Sydney/Canberra
>
> [On the other note, there had been an irruption of Superb Parrots around NW
> suburbs of Canberra which ended about last week. This was not much mentioned
> in this forum]
>
>
>
>
>
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