Hi Janine,
Your Grassbird looks like a Cisticola for mine - the jizz is more in keeping of
Cisticola. The underparts are buffy yellow in keeping with Cisticola and it
doesn't have the white eyebrow of a grassbird. I think the colouration on the
neck and cap also have that more yellow colouration of a cisticola. Also notice
how the colouration on the cap is similar to the nape and back of the head,
there should be a demarcation in cap/rear head colouration on a grassbird.
Your second bird is difficult to pick from the photos - but its more slender
form, particularly the bill is pushing me toward a honeyeater not a whistler -
I'd say an immature Rufous-throated is a likely candidate.
Kind Regards,
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
On 08/09/2013, at 12:10 PM, Janine Duffy wrote:
> Hey all
>
> I hope someone with a good knowledge of Top End birds can help!
>
> I am struggling with two birds I saw on our September 2011 Kakadu trip. Both
> at Mamukala Billabong on the long walk. First I think is a Tawny Grassbird
> in a pandanus - see pics here: picasaweb Tail seems too long for a cisticola
> (I know they can have longer tails at times but it still seems too long).
> Legs and feet are pinkish, and beak appears to have a touch of pink as well,
> which I don't think a Grassbird should have. Maybe it's just the light or
> the poor quality of the pic.
>
> Second I think is a Grey Whistler, but possibly a young one, in a Coral Tree
> Erythrina variegata . Picture suggests it has the white stripe on the wing
> edge (alula?), but seems to have a pale yellowish base of bill and some dark
> streaks on wing coverts.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any other information, only these photos. This
> was all on my second trip to the NT, and I probably missed clues like sound,
> size, that I would pick up now.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Janine
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