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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