Acanthiza pusilla

1 Brown Thornbill at Mongarlowe, NSW

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Identification history

	Acanthiza pusilla	5 Jul 2019	Illilanga
	Acanthiza pusilla	3 Jul 2019	LisaH

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8 comments

Illilanga wrote:

6 Jul 2019

ID based on red eye, colouring and striation pattern.

ArcherCallaway wrote:

6 Jul 2019

Hi Lisa - you have 2 species here. First picture shows Striated Thornbill, third (and probably second) show Brown Thornbill. Please remove the first pic.

LisaH wrote:

6 Jul 2019

Oh dear. Oops - thank you for your time in identifying, and letting me know. At first, I wasn't going to take any photos, because I thought they were (I now know) buff-rumped thornbills. I'm a very new amateur - but I'm learning to take photos of any LBB (little brown bird), because there is such an array - and often within the same tree/shrub/area!

ArcherCallaway wrote:

6 Jul 2019

All good Lisa, happy to help. It becomes even trickier in winter with the mixed feeding flocks, although it does often allow you to get closer.
It looks like you have removed the wrong picture though, so there is now one of each. Could you fix again :)

LisaH wrote:

6 Jul 2019

Aaaahhhh - sorry!

ArcherCallaway wrote:

6 Jul 2019

Still - so the bird high up in a tree in a Striated Thornbill, and the bird low down was the Brown. This has been confirmed as a brown, so you can keep the 2 photos of the bird in the shrub and remove the one up high in the euc.

LisaH wrote:

6 Jul 2019

I'm so sorry. Is this OK?

ArcherCallaway wrote:

11 Jul 2019

Yes thank you :)

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