Identification tips about Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica young male seen at Katherine Treatment Plant, Northern Territory.
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Horsfield’s Bushlark identification challenge
Horsfield’s (Australasian) Bushlark Mirafra javanica identification challenge
Spotted Harrier identification challenge
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis identification tips and pointers
Juvenile Silver Gull identification challenge
Identification of a young Silver Gull (Silver) seen in Victoria Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
ID CHALLENGE: Mangrove Grey Fantail.
Comparison of Mangrove Grey Fantail Rhipidura phasiana to Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscarpa ssp preissi and albicauda
ID Challenge: unknown possible monarch
by Janine Duffy What is this bird? .. This bird appeared above me under the canopy of thick warm temperate rainforest north of the inlet at Mallacoota, eastern Victoria in December 2019. The area is rarely visited, underbirded and home to a few rainforest plants at the extreme southern limit of their range (ie SandpaperContinue reading “ID Challenge: unknown possible monarch”
ID Challenge: Pilotbird
Identification tips for Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus compared to whipbird, songlark, fieldwren, bristlebird
ID Challenge: juvenile Crimson Rosella
Comparisons of Juvenile, immature and adult plumages Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
Paradise or South African Shelduck at Western Treatment Plant, Australia
Discussions on identification of a vagrant shelduck at Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria Australia in January 2020 – possibly South African Shelduck Tadorna cana or Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata.
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