Golden Whistler at Paddys River, ACT
Identification history
| Pachycephala pectoralis | 3 Feb 2019 | natureguy | ||
| Pachycephala pectoralis | 16 Jan 2019 | ArcherCallaway | ||
| Unidentified | 16 Jan 2019 | MatthewFrawley |
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User's notes
Not sure what this is, a bird getting adult plumage? Seemed to be the size of a whistler.
3 comments
ArcherCallaway
wrote:
17 Jan 2019
Looks like a young whistler (Golden?) but colours are strange. Is the dark red on the front missing feathers?
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
3 Feb 2019
I was talking to Philip Veerman about this sighting and he said: "Clearly on shape a Whistler. Yes the colours seem odd but then not really. It is a young Golden Whistler, presumably born last spring, moulting out of the rufous juvenile plumage to the new grey plumage. The reddish bits are being replaced. That is why it is so scrappy and untidy".
Location information
- Coordinates 148.924596-35.521842
- Maps Gibraltar Pines
- Places Paddys River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 9 Jan 2019 10:42 AM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
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Birds Other Birds Intermediate size MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Pachycephala pectoralis Scientific name
- Golden Whistler Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1341.8m Recorded at altitude
- 803 images trained Machine learning
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