Gilbert's Whistler
Female, Red Eye
Gilbert's Whistler
Male, Profile
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| Gilbert's Whistler Female, Red Eye | | Gilbert's Whistler Male, Profile | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||||||||||||||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||||||||||||||
| Family: | Whistler (Pachycephalidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||||||||||||||
| Species: | Gilbert's Whistler (Pachycephala inornata)| This Photo: | Female, Back | Thank you Sam Gordon, Ralph Foster, Jo Jo Swann, Tony and Jenny Dominelli, George Seagull & Brendan Duggan for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere They throw their voices, so hard to find. Beautiful, loud song. Apricot chin & rump. Has a blue-grey / steel-grey head, with a brown / grey back. Similar to Grey Shrike-thrush from behind. When discussing Red-lored whistler's with Sam, he said "Your videos are definitely Gilbert's imo, it's difficult to explain the differences in their calls but Gilbert's are less drawn out and slightly higher pitched. Very similar birds though, it takes a bit of experience to separate them confidently in the field." He added "Gilbert's can have warm rufous ventral patches, but in my experience never as extensively as Red-lored - and I've never seen a young Gilbert's with a rufous vent, only adults. There's definitely a lot of overlap in some features between the two species, so single features alone aren't always reliable." We'll add that we are outside of the Red-lored's range, being a bit too far to the West. But not so far as it'd be impossible to see one blown off course in stormy weather.
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