Sorry Dave... For my two cents worth, I would say it wasn't a Yellow Thornbill,
but a cisticola - or maybe even a plainly coloured Yellow-rumped Thornbill, if
it wasn't a cisticola. But that would also be a bit odd too. Cisticola for me!!
Cheeeeers, Martin Cachard, Cairns, 0428 782 808
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:25:09 +1100
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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:
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> > Dave
> >
> > Are you sure it was not a Cisticolla? Merry Christmas.
> >
> > Greg Little
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> > Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2011 8:57 AM
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> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Strange Yellow Thornbill behaviour?
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> > 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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