White-winged Chough at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Corcorax melanorhamphos | 26 Oct 2019 | Illilanga | ||
| Corcorax melanorhamphos | 26 Oct 2019 | LisaH |
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Watching nature means death, as well as life. I've followed this little chough since finding their nest. First there were two young, but only one that made it to the ground. I was concerned at how vulnerable the little one would be, thinking it couldn't fly, but then saw it about two metres up in a shrub and I breathed a (premature) sigh of relief. Sadly, the whole family disappeared about 10 days after the young one left the nest. I assume once it was no longer around the adult birds left the area. In photos 3 to 5, I found it fascinating to watch the adult birds bathing in the dust. They filled their beaks with dirt, then dispersed the grains throughout their feathers.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.093499-35.328218
- Maps Hughes Grassy Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 6 Abundance
- 14 Oct 2019 07:01 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Birds Other Birds Magpie or larger LisaH
Additional information
- True Nesting site
Species information
- Corcorax melanorhamphos Scientific name
- White-winged Chough Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 899.7m Recorded at altitude
- 756 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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