I seek assistance to identify the ‘night warblers’. We have just returned from a 13 week trip during which we drove across to Perth and back. During this trip I heard a bird repeat warbling exactly a few phrases of song at most camps. The song is different at every location but is always repeated … Read more
In 2008, we set out to go to the western-most point of Australia, but about lunch time we stopped before we would have headed north and watched a black White-winged Wren. We had long and good looks and it was definitely black – no trick of light on blue. We spent so much time there … Read more
Hi Chris, Schodde & Mason (1999) state in relation to M. l. leucopterus: “There are occasional anecdotal reports of the ‘black’ form or of blue males with black feathering on the Australian mainland, particularly on Peron Peninsula opposite Dirk Hartog Island and on Eighty-Mile Beach, WA (e.g. Collins 1995), but their significance cannot be evaluated … Read more
While travelling in WA I was asked by a couple of birders about their sighting of a Malurus leucopterus edouardi or M.i.leucopterus around Caernarvon. Both were adamant they had seen the satin black race on the mainland. No this is way above the pay grade of a seabirder so can anyone tell me whether either … Read more