I guess we'll never know!
It's interesting that we have two choices - either a Yellow Thornbill
(which is what 2 experienced observers thought it was) behaving strangely
or a strangely marked Cisticola behaving strangely (even if not calling it
did not look like one in flight either) - I certainly would go for the
first! Or I guess a 3rd is a Weebill.
On 25 December 2011 13:13, Greg Little <> wrote:
> Dave****
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> Maybe, but it is more likely that a Cisticolla was quietly behaving like a
> Cisticolla than a Yellow Thornbill performing something completely out of
> character for YT’s.****
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> Greg****
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> *From:* Dave Torr
> *Sent:* Sunday, 25 December 2011 12:25 PM
> *To:* Greg Little
> *Cc:* birding-aus
> *Subject:* Re: [Birding-Aus] Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?****
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> Absolutely - the only other possibility given the colouring was Weebill
> but the bill looked wrong. And a Cisticola would usually call when doing
> such flights in my experience****
>
> On 25 December 2011 12:03, Greg Little <> wrote:****
>
> Dave
>
> Are you sure it was not a Cisticolla? Merry Christmas.
>
> Greg Little****
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Dave Torr
> Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2011 8:57 AM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?
>
> On Friday I visited the Western Treatment Plant Werribee with 2 overseas
> birders and an experienced Aussie birder. A short distance down Paradise Rd
> we observed what was almost certainly (based on colour and bill shape - the
> light was not good) a Yellow Thornbill perched on the overhead power lines.
> It was probably 100m or so from the nearest bushes or trees. It
> periodically took off and flew very high before returning to the wire, and
> then eventually flew down into the grassland where we lost sight of it. I
> have seen Yellow Thornbills at the WTP before but this seemed to be very
> strange behaviour!****
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