Is this a male or female? And how can I tell the difference?Thanks, M-L
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The female is similar but has lighter facial markings, the male has almost a 'burglar' type facial appearance.
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Excellent, kevin.
Morcombe' "Field Guide to Australian Birds" tells me there are several races of the white-browed scrub wren but, generally, the females are a little duller in colour than the males with the juveniles duller still. I must say that Morcombe's pictures are significanntly browner than any I've ever seen & certainly browner than your great shots, kevin.
Yes??? What is mine then? Mine looks still different. When I saw it at first, it looked (still does),a lot more rufous than your great shots. M-L
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Araminta, yours looks like a female.
The lack of markings makes me wonder if it's a juvenile, Araminta. Its brown back is more in keeping with the brown in Morcombe's pictures.
Woko, I only new it was a White-browed Scrubwren, when I zoomed in on the computer, it was so "brown/rufous" even more than you can tell from the photo, that I thought it was something else. The bird was a lot(!) smaller than the WBS I have in my garden, but it does have the brows. M-L
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