I’ve seen you folks do some crazy things with not-great photos, so have at it!
Photographed at Casuarina Coastal Reserve, Darwin, NT, around a month ago. This is my home town, and I’m pretty good at field IDs, if I say so myself, but this one has me completely stumped.
Note the browner bird in the background, a possible juvenile/female?
(Non-Australasian) Pipit? I know they sometimes hybridize. A vagrant from Asia?
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You might want to summon Colibri to the thread after the picture is visible. He’s really good with the bird ID stuff, although Australia may be a bit out of his normal haunts.
Stupid facebook, thanks for letting me know.
Does Flickr work, let’s see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67459403@N03/10465463454/in/pool-79514222@N00/lightbox/
It does for me, I cannot help on the ID though
Capt
An idea of scale/size might be helpful. Maybe a sand plover?
Smaller than a robin, bigger than a sparrow.
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You might want to summon Colibri to the thread after the picture is visible. He’s really good with the bird ID stuff, although Australia may be a bit out of his normal haunts.
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I’m no expert on Australian birds, but it looks to me like a male White-winged Triller in non-breeding (eclipse) plumage.
White winged triller is my vote, but Im pretty early days with bird id, going off morecambes birds of australia.
Males go blacker in full breeding, but brown out of it, so in between maybe?
edit: rats!
Otara
It looks to me like it’s molting and between the two plumages.
