Identification challenges – Page 8 – Women Birders Australia

Juvenile Silver Gull identification challenge

Identification of a young Silver Gull (Silver) seen in Victoria Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

ID CHALLENGE: Mangrove Grey Fantail.

Mangrove Grey Fantail how to identify from 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

pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus cape conran

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.