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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-26-2024, 07:52 PM
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Ahhhhh - I didnt know that red icon did that - very cool. Okay chasing back through the threads I see we are now discussing the tawny coloured bird on the rusty fence. Yup you are probably correct that that is a cistacola. It is too slender for sparrow - definitely not a finch as you say. I saw this bird in the same location 3-4 times and it seemed to find refuge in a tall patch of dried grass. Memory says it looks very like the reference picture I posted earlier but not so deep an russet.
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01-25-2024, 09:10 PM
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Are you sure we are looking at the same birds image ?- I am referring to image in post #2903 above. Living on the island are flocks of the Chestnut breasted Munia that are depicted in posts #2776 and #2779 above.
Another shot of the unknown birds which are perhaps juvenile chestnut breasted munias is depicted below:
Just seems odd to have this number of juveniles in a single mob. Golden Headed cistacola bill is even longer and thinner as shown in image here |
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01-21-2024, 03:50 AM
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Hi Terry, just had a look at reference pics online and the shape of the cistacola bill is quite different - 'my' birds have finch or munia bills implying a different habitat as well.
Thank you for the input.
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12-13-2023, 07:26 PM
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This species is common on Green Island, a short boat ride off Cairns much visited by tourists. The birds have become used to the human visitors and act like ibises in the cities. No need for long lenses when they get under your feet.!!!
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Left it with the experts, Des.
Passed pictures and location to the island rangers. By chance a biodiversity survey was being done on the island and a visit from an ornithologist was scheduled so possibly more news will be forthcoming.[COLOR="Silver"]
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10-28-2023, 03:10 AM
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A finch family in the Darnley Island wasteland next door. Could someone advise ID. Some online pictures look like the Java Munia and other pictures look a bit like the Spice or Nutmeg or Scaley Breasted Finch. Thoughts please...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-25-2023, 02:57 AM
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Not sure of the ID, seems to small to be a juvenile sparrow - more the size of a wren. Hunting in wasteland along the fence line and observed in the seed tops of weeds and grasses.
K3 & DA55-300 and a deep crop
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-14-2023, 07:51 PM
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A cute sequence of images of a Scarlet Honeyeater Myzomela sanguinolenta juvenile and its mum feeding along the fenceline.
K3 and DA55-300HD and deep crop.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-03-2023, 03:27 PM
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Thanks Des for the added info. I think the Honey Eater is a Yellow spotted - too far north for the Lewin, too big for the Graceful, and conforms to size parameters. Currently living on Darnley Island which the Outer Eastern Island nearer PNG than Continental Australia. So the New Guinea White Eye is probably a better ID.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-02-2023, 04:41 PM
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The current backyard has a fruiting banana palm at the moment which is attracting honey eater and silvereye families. And some insects whch attract the sunbirds.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-10-2023, 12:35 AM
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New Holland Honey Eater on iconic Australian flower Banksia Menzesii
Deep crop K3 & Tamron 90
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03-29-2023, 12:23 AM
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As well as Bee Eaters we currently have the migrating Dollar Bird (Eurystomus orientalis) or Broad Billed Roller - labelled for its silver dollar coin sized rondells on the undersides of its wing. This bird species is the sole Australian representative of the Roller family. Another bird taking its prey on the wing.
A Forest or Bush Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) is also participating in the insect smorgasbord occurring at the moment.
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03-28-2023, 01:33 PM
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More Bee Eaters.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-23-2023, 03:10 AM
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Another visitor, the largest parasitic cuckoo species, the Channel Billed Cuckoo. This species uses magpie breeding couples to surrogate raise their eggs.
K3 & DA55-300 HD
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-19-2023, 01:13 AM
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The migrating BeeEaters are moving through the island once more feeding on the many insects that have appeared with the tail end of the wet season.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2023, 12:22 AM
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As mentioned above, I was hoping to get a better shot of the munia - and this one is better - light is better as is focus - still room for improvement:
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03-02-2023, 04:41 AM
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Tonights evening walk, the sky was very overcast - a migratory bird catching a shrimp I think - deep crop
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Below is a project I am working on. This is a flock of Lonchura castaneothorax or Chestnut breasted munia (sometimes also called mannikin or finches). These pics were taken close to sunset and very dark and this is after cropping and adjusting of levels. One day I hope to get in full sun and somewhat closer to the camera.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-01-2023, 04:34 AM
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The evening walk featured a beautiful sunset -with many waders using the last light to top off their seafood intake.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-06-2023, 05:35 PM
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Five more portraits of parrots and a cassowary. These are from the Kuranda Bird Sanctury west of Cairns - worth a visit if you are in the area.
K3 Tamron 90mm SPDi Portrait/Macro lens
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01-05-2023, 11:21 PM
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A visit to a birdsanctury so not my backyard but a backyard as the birds are being fed from feeders.
Red tailed black cockatoo:
K3 & Tamron 90mm SP Di Macro/Portrait lens
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-06-2022, 03:10 AM
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Pied Heron
K3 & DA16-85
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-23-2021, 11:47 PM
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This month a couple of species of kingfishers have included our backyard in their range. The blue winged Kookaburra is almost twice the size of the juvenile sacred kingfisher.
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01-10-2021, 05:43 PM
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Yellow figbird on rear fence line
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12-28-2020, 05:51 PM
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North Queensland variant of the Kookaburra - hunting from the Hills Hoist rotary clothes line
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12-22-2020, 04:56 PM
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Bush Stone Curlews - Cairns Esplanade
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