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To: | "John Graff" <>, "Birding-Aus" <>, "Birds WA E-Mail List" <> |
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Subject: | Eurasian Magpie at Port Hedland, WA and other reports |
From: | "Mike Carter" <> |
Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:35:51 +1000 |
Simon Mustoe raised the possibility that this bird might be a Black-billed
Magpie. No chance! With ships arriving at Port Hedland daily from Asia it
would be that taxon rather than its relative from North America. The
differences are slight the most obvious being a grey band across the lower
back/rump but that area of the plumage is not visible in the adequate but
rather ordinary photo. Parsimony states such criteria unnecessary.
This is one of a few strange occurrences I've heard of recently. Currently
there is a rather pallid looking 'Barbary Dove' on Lord Howe island thought
possibly a natural arrival from the feral NZ population. Another is an old
observation from a person (nascent birder) who produced photos of a duck we
identify as a Lesser Whistling Duck taken in Malaysia which, he claims, is
the same species as a bird he saw at the sewage works on Christmas Island.
You may remember that a putrid unidentified duck was pulled from a tank
there last year.
Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Tel (03) 9787 7136 |
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