Don't kill me for this, but there is also the fact that the wings stick out
past the tail ;)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Nathan <> wrote:
> Please excuse the Grammar Errors, I was writing it in a Hurry, and I'm not
> very good at english... xD
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Nathan <> wrote:
>
>> A few of us went to Long Reef on the Weekend, and posted images of the
>> bird to Birdline, where Josh got an email saying the birds in question is
>> different to Marks bird (and it very obviously is, there's no arguing that!
>> xD) which sparked us to start up a post on Feathers and Photos.com.au,
>> which got mixed results, most people agreeded that it was a Wandering
>> Tattler, but mark bought up Reasonable doubt of our ID, and thought that it
>> was best to leave it to the experts! We thought that it was very probably
>> the same bird to Marks First photo (which is the Second Picture here:
>> http://myoungbirding.blogspot.com/2011/02/wandering-tattler-part-1.html )
>> through photoshop we saw the grey and white line matches up perfectly, when
>> superimposed on one another. But the main aguements against the ID are *"The
>> supercilium by itself is not enough of a diagnostic feature to ID as a
>> Wandering. I can show you quite a few GTT images where the supercilium
>> doesn't extend past the eye." "**The base of the bill seems to be too
>> yellow for a Wandering, or so I'm told... (Email from Alan Richards)*
>> Quote:
>> G-tT generally have lighter bill bases than WT, particularly on the upper
>> mandible, but some G-tT have darker bill bases, making this a little
>> unreliable. However I am yet to see a WT with a very light base to the upper
>> mandible, so this character should rule out WT
>> "
>>
>> And the main points for Wandering Tattler is that it looks very similar to
>> the other of Marks Birds (of which no-ones bought up isn't a WT), we flushed
>> it from a rockshelf that was in very heavy surf, and when if flushed we
>> heard it make a Trill Call, and followed it to this, the supercillium
>> doesn't extend past the eye, the is much more grey on this then you'd expect
>> with G-T T, and there is barely any white on the throat. And also in the
>> field it was just SO different to all the other Tattlers we saw on the day!
>>
>> But I guess I should get to the pictures shouldn't I....
>>
>> Without further ado:
>> http://j-twitcher.blogspot.com/2011/02/wandering-tattler.html
>>
>>
>
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