Hi,
I am so curious about the identification of a recent bird visitor to my property. I know of quite a few varieties in my area but I've never seen this one before.
It has super camouflage and even when I took a photo of it I couldn't see it in the picture and I was about 8 feet away from it.
It has a green/brown/yellow speckled chest, an insect eater beak, a warbler kind of tail (but bigger), brown wings and is speckled on its back with a pale green/brown. It wasn't too scared as I was walking past it but ran under a low bush when I came too close. It ran quite quick, which gave me the impression that it would prefer to run than fly. It had a mate, which looked the same as it.
I'm aware of the many female bower birds who frequent my garden but this bird was a different variety. It was smaller than a female bower bird and the camouflage was about 5 times better.
It was searching amongst the leaf litter. I thought it may be a Ground Thrush but the pictures in a book I've got aren't close enough.
Any ideas what this bird could be?
Thank you!
A bassian thrush?
P.S. Where are you?
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Thank you soakes. I just looked at an internet image for the Bassian thrush and that is the bird I was wanting to identify.
I'm in the Shoalhaven area, NSW.
You know your birds. Much appreciated.