Juveniles - help with IDs please

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Birdgirl2009
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Juveniles - help with IDs please

Hi everyone
I went for a walk through some bush near a large shopping centre and found lots of juveniles.

Could this be a juvenile raven? It didn't make any noise and has dark eyes, not white eyes

This looks to me like a juvenile butcherbird, but my book says the ones in our area, pied and grey, have brown juveniles. It has a butcherbird beak

Same bird as one above

Juvenile magpie

Noisy miner at its nest

This appears to be a baby magpie lark getting ready to fly. Sorry about the quality - it was a long way up a gum tree

I think this is another baby (on the branch) that has just left the nest

I think the parent is in the middle (long tail)

This is a galah feeding a juvenile in our backyard

birdie
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Don't know about the first but I think you are right about the juv Butcherbird.
It's amazing how many nests are around isn't it?
This morning I walked under a tree I have been walking under for 3 months and all the leaves have dropped ready for the summer flowering.... I was amazed in such a small tree to find 4 nests that had been used over the past month. two noisy miner nests and two figbirds. I hadn't even realised they were there amongst the foliage.

Sunshine Coast Queensland

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BTW the juv ravens have a dark eye so that must be one in the first pic.

Sunshine Coast Queensland

ed
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Could be a young crow, that patch of bare skin at the base of the beak is often pink in young Ravens.

Ed Townsville NQ

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The first is a Corvid, but not being familiar with others than the Aus Raven, I cannot say. Have a look in one of your field guides, they should mention juvenile colors, gape etc... hopefully. :)

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Thanks everyone for your help. I had a look at my books - juveniles do have brown eyes. It also had that round fuzzy-headed look that many juvenile birds have. We don't get crows down here, so it must be an Australian raven

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