LBB in my garden

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birdie
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LBB in my garden

Finally got a decent shot of this little bird who frequents the back garden near my BR window. I can't find anything to help me. It looks like the same type as one I rescued earlier in the year when the noisy miners saved it from a cat attack.

Can anyone help me to ID it?

cheers

Birdie

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Looks kind of like a Brown Gerygone, not sure though.

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Or perhaps female or juv house Sparrow, take a look at this pic, they look similar. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1430/949016479_b0bcf8de39.jpg?v=0

And Now i'm not sure about the gerygone, because the BG has a very white front while that one seems quite dark.

birdie
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Definitely not a house sparrow. I'll have to look through my previous posts and see what Denis said that last one was ,

Cheers

Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

raysimula
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Hi Birdie. Could it be a Grey Shrike-Thrush. They don't have a hooked beak but the one in you'r pic may have something in it's beak.Ray

birdie
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Hi Rayn definitely not that bird. I haven't heard that call in the area at all. i think it is much smaller than the GS thrush anyway. By the way, can you have a look under my post in interesting sightings and confirmfor me that it was a white goshawk?
Everyone must be on holiday or rushed off their feet at the moment!! :)

Cheers

BIRdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

birdie
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After hours trolling through Simpson and Day and crss referencing on BIBY to hear calls etc, I have decided that it is a female golden whistler. I can't say I have noticed such a definitive call, but there are times when I think I can hear a whip bird without the right "whip" and that could be it I guess.

CHeers
Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

guzzi
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Hi Birdie, what does LBB stand for.

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John

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I thought it was little black bird or little baby bird. Good question, I hadn't really thought about it :) So what does it mean birdie??

birdie
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HI guys. Ha ha.... little brown bird

Cheers

Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

guzzi
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Hi Birdie, I'm not able to see your pictures because I am on computer which is not my own and the Flickr site is on they're banned list. I am at least able to see some photos but not yours. I never thought of Little Brown Bird.

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John

birdie
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That is strange Guzzi. I thought with the links you would be ok but I guess it is downloading the info and that is why they ban it so that the downloads aren't too big.
Do you have a computer at home?

You could check it out there if you do.

Cheers
birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

guzzi
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Hi Birdie, I do have another computer in my room but the internet runs out after 1gig of data so I can't use it too much.

Cheers
John

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Little black bird, little brown bird, they're all the same :), lol, I feel for you Guzzi, recenlty only had 2 gigs of usage and that was bad enough...

So do we know what it is yet??

Lyn
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Birdie - I'm voting for the Female Golden Whistler.
The tail is right,black eye is bright and colour pretty right too. The 'hook" on the beak doesn't look right for a hooked beak and I think there could be something sticking to the end of it.

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Hi everyone

Yes, I think it is a golden whistler female. haven't seen her for a while. I can sympathise with you too guzzi as we are monitoring uploads and downloads at the moment and somehow we are showing 300mb of upload between 2am and 7am !
Definitely not accurate!
That is why it is good to reduce the images before uploading to BIBY too.

Have a great Xmas guys

Cheers

Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

al
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@ Lyn, the hook at the tip of the upper mandible is the clincher for female Golden Whistler.
Click on photo by Geoffrey Dabb
http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/Species%20HTML/golden_whistler.html
Cheers,
al

birdie
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Thanks so much for the link Al. Yes that is definitely her. There is something so noticeable about the eye, it seems larger and darker than other birds.
I enjoyed looking through the different pics on that Canberra site. I will use that in future too. I find that some of the pics on BIBY are not easy to pick an ID from at times.

Cheers

Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

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