Weebill at Hawker, ACT
Identification history
| Smicrornis brevirostris | 10 Apr 2018 | ChrisDavey | ||
| Smicrornis brevirostris | 5 Apr 2018 | ChrisDavey | ||
| Unidentified | 25 Mar 2018 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Found on a Gardening Australia bird walk. John B suggested this was a Weebill nest. There were quite a few around.
2 comments
ChrisDavey
wrote:
4 Apr 2018
Hi Alison, sorry for taking so long to get back on this one. Can you please tell me the location of the nest. I have sent your image to the Australian National Wildlife Collection and they think it may be a Brown Thornbill nest. Certainly the eggs of a Weebill are darker than shown in the image. One difference is that Weebills nest in the leafy foliage of a tree or shrub whilst the Brown thornbill nests in low shrubbery usually less than 1 m above the ground. Chris
AlisonMilton
wrote:
4 Apr 2018
Hi Chris, this nest was just off the track in the Pinnacle Nature Reserve. There were quite a few Weebills around and John B, who leads regular bird walks through the Pinnacle, thought it was probably a Weebill nest. The nest was in a eucalypt at about eye level, so not in very high foliage.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.036898-35.256563
- Altitude 652.1m
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 23 Mar 2018 08:58 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Small (Robin, Finch, Thornbill etc) Other Birds
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Smicrornis brevirostris Scientific name
- Weebill Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1594.7m Recorded at altitude
- 315 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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