I have given a warning but hopefully someone can quickly answer this question which has been driving me crazy. As a father of two toddlers (one of who loves looking at bird books) I am a regular watcher of “In the Night Garden”. At various stages (and particularly near the end) four birds called the tittifers (this is the best image I could find – is this on a fellow B-A Picasso site? http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9qL_erkSvLDkgJv2v_OUwA). I regularly get asked what the birds are – and am fine with the Hoopoe, Turaco and Toucan. However, I have no idea what the four small birds at top left are. A search of the web provides no answer – Wikipedia has Shaft-tailed Finch (which appears to be another name for Long-tailed Finch) and used to have Blue Lorikeet (which is not correct either). I had a thought it might be one of the South American Bellbirds (Cotinga) but looking up HBW it doesn’t look right. The colour and size may have been altered (as has happened with the other birds) though they seem to a wattle just above the white throat. Does anyone have any idea what these birds are – otherwise I am going to sit and look through every plate of HBW until I find out what it is. Cheers, Peter
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They look like small or distant Kokako’s to me.
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They strike me as some sort of Tanager.
Kevin Stracey
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They strike me as some sort of Tanager.
Kevin Stracey
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I asked the same question back in 2008 but don’t recall getting an answer, not a serious one, anyway. I think I even emailed the BBC. It’s amusing to find that it has turned out to be an Australian species.
I have to warn you that this show will stay with you for a long time, and you’ll still be waving to the Pontipines long after your children have forgotten about it.
Peter Shute
Partially inverted – lores and eyes are not…
Shaft-tailed Finch it is, just in inverted colours (I’ve been playing with pictures in paint.net). Cheers,
Tony
I managed to see a Hoopoe a few weeks before I left Switzerland. “I know,” I thought, “I’ll tell Mk 1 infant about it as she loves that show.” Next time it was on, I said to her “I saw one of those tittifers.” With that look that only a small child can pull off when humiliating an adult, she looked at me and said “It’s called a Hoopoe.” Mind you, she could ideantify a blackbird by call at only 18 months. Cheers,
Tony