Thornbill's R Trcky

[Chris Shaw <>]

Hi Carol,

Thanks for the correction. I had it down for a Dusky so you have confirmed my guess. I frequently surveyed that patch of mangrove over many days over a number of years and I only saw them on the very odd occasion bearing in mind there is a huge area of mangroves along the Pilbara coast and the ability to the search even a small part of the entire habitat is difficult or impossible.

More common of the small passerines that actually went into the mangrove forests that I saw were Yellow White-eyes, Mangrove Fantails, White-breasted Whistlers, Mangrove Robins and more rarely Mangrove Golden Whistler.

Behind the mangroves were all sorts but they tended to be quite seasonal sometimes disappearing for many years especially since the last few dry years have been there.

Chris Shaw

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On 2 Sep 2020, at 2:43 pm, Carol Probets <> wrote:

Hi Chris and all, a correction to my post last week. Thanks to Sean Dooley for pointing out that your last photo is of course a Dusky (not Mangrove) Gerygone. The eye colour and the location clinch it.

Cheers,

Carol

On 26 Aug 2020, at 4:08 pm, Carol Probets <m("westnet.com.au","origma");" class="">> wrote:

Hi Chris,

After the Buff-rumped you have (1) Brown Thornbill, (2) Chestnut-rumped, (3) Yellow Thornbill, and the last one is Mangrove Gerygone.

And to answer your gerygone question in the 4th paragraph, in my experience it’s usually pronounced “jer-RIG-a-nee” (with accent on the second syllable) but I’ve also heard it said with a hard g - “ger-RIG-a-nee”. The only people that say “jerry-gone” are people who have only read the word and haven’t heard other birders pronounce it :-)

Cheers,

Carol

On 26 Aug 2020, at 10:21 am, Chris Shaw <m("internode.on.net","seashore");" class="">> wrote:

Down Under some of the Thornbill's are a bother as are their cousins the Jerry Gone's because they are small, hide in things, flit about without any consideration for people watching them and are similar looking (the birds not the people). I have a Buff-rumped Thornbill that I know because it had just been captured in a mist net and was about to be measured etc., and a few others you may wish to guess for me…

… and the bird bander told me it was a Buff-rumped Thornbill… perhaps!

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Chris Shaw

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