Baza

A single Pacific Baza seen on Mayfair Drive ( Mulgpa NSW ) yesterday, sending local Ravens crazy.

Would twitching it would be an essential activity in the days of C19 ?Walking solo or in a pair up the hill would be Exercise, which is OK,

Michael

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On another tangent, I do kinda miss the old days of moderating the insane conversations on Birding-Aus between Unca Tones And John Gamblin… On 29 Mar 2020, at 10:20 am, Tony Russell <pratincole08@gmail.com> wrote:

This may be an interesting curiosity  but in the present circumstances I find it nothing to get too excited about.  OK . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

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This may be an interesting curiosity but in the present circumstances I find it nothing to get too excited about. OK as a temporary mental distraction I suppose, nothing more.

On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 18:14, Penny Brockman <penny@pennydb.org> wrote:

Are there any jackdaws in Australia? ——————– Penny Brockman On Sat, 28 . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

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I think that Euan Moore has hit the nail on the head with his suggestion of Common Myna. The bill is too short to be a Magpie, the whole bird is the wrong shape to be a Blackbird and it is too small to be a Magpie or a Raven. It even has the bare . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

White bird

As Philip has noted, the white bird near Manyana is not a Bali Starling. Which has unmistakable blue around its eyes and a crest,

Michael

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Are there any jackdaws in Australia? ——————– Penny Brockman On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, at 3:27 PM, David Clark wrote: It looks like a Magpie to me; shape, bill and attitude are right. Cheers David Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2020, at 1:32 pm, Penny Brockman <penny@pennydb.org> wrote: Difficult one. Common Blackbird? . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

White bird

An interesting suggestion Euan.

There is an All white Bali Starling which we saw years ago, a sought after cage bird in Indonesia and only really surviving thanks to semi-captive breeding (on an island other than Bali)

Subject to Isolation restrictions I will follow this up, but perhaps someone out there knows the Bali Starling . . . → Read More: White bird

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How does the idea of a Jackdaw come into it? The photo was taken in south coast NSW. Surely the best idea is to ask the person who was there, before we go all over: was / is it behaving like a magpie, raven, currawong? I now reckon it is a Magpie, based on shape . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

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It looks like a Magpie to me; shape, bill and attitude are right. Cheers David

Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2020, at 1:32 pm, Penny Brockman <penny@pennydb.org> wrote:

Difficult one. Common Blackbird?  Bill looks too small for a Corvus. Blackbirds often have white feathers or albino. Are eyes pink? ——————– Penny Brockman On . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg

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Thanks Jim,                      No picture no nothing .                      No sure how to interpret your post, the bird is not a Jackdaw.!                        Consensus is (Australian) . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg