1 Common Bronzewing at Wolumla, NSW
Identification history
| Phaps chalcoptera | 18 Dec 2018 | PatriciaDaly |
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User's notes
I think young ones, as they were very quiet, sitting under a shrub initially. One flew off, the other stayed so I could take photos.
4 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
20 Dec 2018
Hi Patricia, Yep, definitely juvenile plumage, and I think, based on our CSIRO field guide illustrations of juvenile plumage, that they are common, not brush, as you suggest. Common brushwing juvs look to have more pale feathers on the forehead than brush.
PatriciaDaly
wrote:
20 Dec 2018
It was the markings around the eye that led me to suggest Common Bronzewing, even though there is no obvious colour on the wings.
JackieMiles
wrote:
20 Dec 2018
According to the CSIRO book, the juvs of both have very similar white lines round the eye. It's a very useful book that way - most field guides don't have such good illustration of juvenile plumage, if any.
PatriciaDaly
wrote:
21 Dec 2018
Hopefully they will hang around until adult, then I’ll know for sure!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.787745-36.812058
- Places Wolumla, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 18 Dec 2018 12:00 AM Recorded on
- PatriciaDaly Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Pigeons and Doves PatriciaDaly South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Phaps chalcoptera Scientific name
- Common Bronzewing Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1044.5m Recorded at altitude
- 210 images trained Machine learning
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