Sorry Greg but your shots show the birds to be Leaden not Broad-billed Flycatchers. Tail shape is diagnostic, square in Satin & Leaden Flycatchers, rounded in Broad-billed. In Broad-billed the outer rectrices are 5-7 mm longer than the central pair and the fairly even graduation in length is obvious viewed ventrally. In your birds T1 to T6 are almost equal in length. See HANZAB. Bill shape and measurements are confusable and frequently mislead.
Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Tel (03) 9787 7136
I’ve heard enough to be convinced that the photographed birds are Leadens. It appears that the tail is very good feature, and one I wasn’t aware of. The photographs sent to me show the graduation that Mike refers to (though not in the order he gives). I’ve removed the blog post. This has always been a tricky group – on this occasion I was fooled by the fact that the bills looked huge as the birds were very close and above me in the kayak, and the calls sounded identical to the Broad-billed playback. Greg