Olive-backed Oriole
Juvenile anterior
Grey Shrike-thrush
Fledgling Profile
| Olive-backed Oriole Juvenile anterior | | Grey Shrike-thrush Fledgling Profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
| Family: | Whistler (Pachycephalidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica ssp harmonica) | ||||
| This Photo: | Fledgling Front | ||||
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli & David Mules for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere What a song. Pretty, but plain-coloured (grey shades) Juveniles: rufous eye + breast markings. Male Adults have a white patch between the eyes and the beak (ie the lores). But this patch isn't easy to see, depending on lighting & angle. So seeing a white lores means you have a male, while not seeing a white lores doesn't guarantee you have a female. The female has a white eye ring. Both genders sing, not just the male. We've just added photo's of eggs & chicks. These were taken over 3 years observing the same nest in our carport. Notice the eggs look different, even though they are the same species (possibly/likely the same parents/mother). Also notice there were 3 eggs/chicks each time. We didn't get a full sequence in one year as we were trying not to disturb them (ie photographing caused the parent to fly away). Everytime we came home from work/shops, etc, the parent would leave. Being a cold environment, we were concerned about the viability of the eggs & chicks with the parents leaving so often. It wasn't an ideal place for the nest, but gave us the opportunity to observe & record them. We think they fledged at about 14 days old or so, but can't be sure. | |||||
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