Walking the dog along Kooning Creek this morning, we came across a weird looking Miner. In a colony of Noisy Miners, it has a head just like a Noisy, including the half black cap, but when it flies, there are large white patches on its upper wings, as though it has white primaries. When folded it shows as a white stripe like a Dusky Woodswallow.
Just a weird individual, some sort of leukistic (if that’s the right term), or maybe a hybrid? The nearest Yellow-throated is about 500km away, and they don’t have white wings either.
Bill
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