Ok thanks. The grey shrike-thrushs I've seen in the past have all had lots of streaking. Is that a difference between juveniles and adults or does that simply vary between individuals? This is a photo of one which I had IDed as Grey Shrike-Thrush. Tell me if I'm wrong...
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Hmmm, gosh i'm not sure! It's got the same beak as a GST but doesn't look like the ones around where I live. I'll do some research and see what I can find
The second post was in taken in Morton NP, but thats what they've looked like when I've seen therm in Canberra in the past as well (assuming I've IDed them correctly)
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Juvenile Grey Shrike-thrushes here in Tenterfield, NSW don't have the stripey feather patterns. I think it could be a genetic adaptation thing. The bird in your photos looks like a Grey Shrike-thrush to me. Haven't seen, or I haven't been looking for it, any GST birds with white streaks in their rump feathers though, as photographed in the last photo you added. That could be a genetic marker of who the parent/s are in my experience of bird watching offspring and parent birds of a lot of different species.
I'm at Tenterfield, NSW. (Formerly known as "Hyperbirds".)
I'd say that it's a Grey Shrike Thrush
Ok thanks. The grey shrike-thrushs I've seen in the past have all had lots of streaking. Is that a difference between juveniles and adults or does that simply vary between individuals? This is a photo of one which I had IDed as Grey Shrike-Thrush. Tell me if I'm wrong...
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
Hmmm, gosh i'm not sure! It's got the same beak as a GST but doesn't look like the ones around where I live. I'll do some research and see what I can find
Maybe a Western Grey Shrike Thrush? Maybe someone more expirienced will know
The second post was in taken in Morton NP, but thats what they've looked like when I've seen therm in Canberra in the past as well (assuming I've IDed them correctly)
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
Juvenile Grey Shrike-thrushes have streaking on their fronts. At least where I livein SA.
some people confuse them with female Rufous Whistlers
Well it would make sense if the stripey bird is a juvenile.
Juvenile Grey Shrike-thrushes here in Tenterfield, NSW don't have the stripey feather patterns. I think it could be a genetic adaptation thing. The bird in your photos looks like a Grey Shrike-thrush to me. Haven't seen, or I haven't been looking for it, any GST birds with white streaks in their rump feathers though, as photographed in the last photo you added. That could be a genetic marker of who the parent/s are in my experience of bird watching offspring and parent birds of a lot of different species.
I'm at Tenterfield, NSW. (Formerly known as "Hyperbirds".)
They appear to be very variable...
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/forum/it-thrush