G'day,
For those of you who are interested in timing of breeding etc, I
happened on a pair of White-throated Nightjars with a young one on the
Sunshine Coast over the weekend.
I don't where the demarcation point is between the status of chick vs
juvenile. This young one was mostly fledged but hadn't grown its tail
feathers. Its plumage blended very nicely with the dead leaves on the
ground.
I've placed a picture of the young one on Tom Tarrant's website - http://www.aviceda.org/abid/birdimages.php?action=birdimage&bid=297&fid=27&p=5&pagesize=1
. One of the adults perched in a tree 50 metres away, so I have
also placed a picture of it on ABID - http://www.aviceda.org/abid/birdimages.php?p=6&action=birdimage&bid=297&fid=27&pagesize=1
. It's a grainy pic, but it does show the underparts (the parts of a
nightjar you don't normally see when it is roosting on the ground).
Regards, Laurie.
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