Tenterfield bird

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Meave
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Tenterfield bird

This one was at Old Wallangarra Road near Tenterfield (Qld NSW border). Can't make up my mind about him at all. Any ideas?

timmo
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I'm not certain either.

That really round ping-pong ball shape always makes me think of thornbills, but the eye doesn't match any of the thornbills.

The eye and the pinkish legs remind me of a white browed scrubwren.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

soakes
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Tha patch of white on the wings says scrubwren to me - I'm not sure which type though.

- soakes

soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia

Araminta
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It's a White-browed Scrubwren.

M-L

Woko
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A young white-browed scrub wren? (Unwhite-browed at this stage of its life?)

Meave
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Thanks for that - thought he looked scrubwren-y but couldn't get past no white eyebrows. I also thought of a thornbill but he didn't fit the bill there either. Nice little rounded profile he has, looks very ping-pong ball as you said, Tim.

Meave

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