Hi all,
We had a Spangled Drongo at Irrawong Reserve, Warriewood, Sydney, NSW, today. See Raja’s picture on her website:
http://www.adarman.com/Trips/2012-July-8-Warriewood-NSW
Are the wintering drongos down here D. b. bracteatus or rather overshooting southward migrants from one of the northern subspecies?
Among the 43 bird species we saw there today were: 1 Australian Brush-turkey 5+ Chestnut Teal 2+ Mallard x Pacific Black Duck hybrids and 2 Mallard mutants between approximately 10 pure-looking Pacific Black Ducks (Raja has some photos of at least one of the hybrids) many Rainbow, Scaly-breasted and Musk Lorikeets in the flowering Swamp Mahoganies 1 Superb Lyrebird 1 White-throated Treecreeper lots of Spotted Pardalotes, Silvereyes (lateralis and westernensis) and honeyeaters (especially good numbers of Scarlet and White-cheeked Honeyeaters) in the flowering Swamp Mahoganies 2 Red-whiskered Bulbuls
Cheers,
Nikolas
