# Bird ID, northern Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166 "2013-10-24T22:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/1 "2013-10-24T22:03:31Z")
I’ve seen you folks do some crazy things with not-great photos, so have at it! > **[Log into Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153358843125574&l=e035bdcd0a)** > > Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/2 "2013-10-24T23:01:56Z")
Clicking on that link says I don’t have permission to view the image, or you don’t have permission to share it. 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. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/3 "2013-10-24T23:17:34Z")
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/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/67459403@N03/10465463454/in/pool-79514222@N00/lightbox/) ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/4 "2013-10-25T00:05:13Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > 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/](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** ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/5 "2013-10-25T01:37:10Z")
An idea of scale/size might be helpful. Maybe a sand plover? ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/6 "2013-10-25T01:49:44Z")
Smaller than a robin, bigger than a sparrow. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/7 "2013-10-25T02:16:26Z")
[Varied](https://www.google.com/search?q=varied+triller&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IdRpUrr1HIm8iwLx2YGICw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=983&bih=562) or [White-winged Triller](https://www.google.com/search?q=white-winged+triller&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=udRpUqOqJ6eciAKRk4DQBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=983&bih=562)? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/8 "2013-10-25T02:39:58Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:2, topic:672166”] 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. [/QUOTE] I’m no expert on Australian birds, but it looks to me like a male [White-winged Triller in non-breeding (eclipse) plumage.](http://www.birdway.com.au/campephagidae/white_winged_triller/source/image/white_winged_triller_33453.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/9 "2013-10-25T03:05:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-id-northern-australia/672166/10 "2013-10-25T03:27:29Z")
> [@Otara](#): > > Males go blacker in full breeding, but brown out of it, so in between maybe? It looks to me like it’s molting and between the two plumages.