Hi,
i have many native birds in my garden that either feed on the grevillea flowers or eat the birdseed or mincemeat I throw out every day so I'm familiar with the birds that visit me. But this morning I saw a different bird that I need help identifying. It looked very similar to the Grey Butcher birds that eat the mincemeat. Same colour (grey, black and white) but this one looked slender (like the red wattlebird) and had a black head and neck. It was hanging around my grevillea flowers, but I didn't see it eat the necter. Any ideas? Thanks.
noisy miner?
It could be, but looking at photos, the bird I saw had a very black face and neck. Thanks.
maybe a black faced cuckoo shrike
maybe a pied butcher bird
Could either one of those. I'll have to get a closer look next time. My backyard backs onto a nature strip next to the freeway, and this is where it was lurking! Thanks!
Hmm, I wonder if it could have been a Friar bird of some kind? They have a black head and are quite slender, maybe a noisy Friar bird? Keep us posted, look forward to hearing what bird you've seen :)
Hi Tonia,
Can you tell us where you are? (as that might help with narrowing it down)
Common-ish birds with black head and partly grey/white body:
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
I live in Jandakot, WA.
it looked very similar to the grey butcherbird, but its head and neck were blacker, and its body was slender (like a wattlebird).
Hope this helps! Thanks,
I am from Western Australia also and have seen the same bird in our garden hovering around the grevillea. We have a lot of honeyeaters nesting in our garden. Also had a doves nest in our backyard with 2 babies hatched about a week ago. Woke up yesterday to find fluffy feathers in our pool and larger tail feathers. The nest is empty looks like it was raided. Not sure what happened but that morning there were 30 crows in a large tree on a neighbours property, no other birds in sight which was very unusual as we have many species in our locale
What about a Western Spinebill. It fits the descriptions. Especially hovering around the Grevillea.