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These small birds are very good at passing unseen in the thick of the vegetation. I am quite happy with the photo, as it illustrates everything you need to identify this bird: The white eye brows, the white wing pattern, the striated breast, the brown rump, the fine bill, the length of the tail, and both the bird's stretched and its puffed posture.
To ask for some light on this pair would have been too much. These birds seldom leave the protection of low and dense vegetation.
To hear its call - which is, however, not typical of this region - follow this link:
birdsinbackyards.net/images/audio/sericornis-frontalis.mp3
Near Mount Barker, Western Australia
White-browed Wagtail or Large Pied Wagtail
Motacilla madaraspatensis
Cauvery Sangama (neat Gaalibore fishing camp), Karnataka
Shot from Puthenvelikkara, Ernakulam...
The White-browed Bulbul is about 20 cm (7 inches) in length, with a long tail. It has olive-grey upperparts and whitish underparts. This species is identified by the white supercilium, white crescent below the eye, and dark eyestripe and moustachial stripe. Sexes are similar in plumage. It is usually detected by the burst of song that it produces from the top of a bush and often dives into the bush becoming difficult to see
Despite its size (about 16", 410mm in length) and striking plumage, this can be a difficult bird to see and photograph. Its habit of skulking in shubbery, undergrowth and dense waterside vegetation means that it is heard crashing about, more often than it is seen.
It has a wide diet consisting mostly of insects, but it will also take young birds and eggs. While it will feed on the ground it is easily disturbed, returning to cover in a clumsy, awkward fashion.
As with other members of the Centropidinae, the White-browed Coucal is non-parasitic. The males construct a nest, they then incubate the eggs and provide most of the feeding and care for the young. Information from www.kenyabirds.org.uk
2022 Barry-Roubaix Gravel Road Race. March 26, 2022. This album contains photos from 100 mile distance on Sisson Rd at approximately mile 22 between 8:10 and 8:43 am. See other albums for other distances/locations.
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Thought I'd dig this shot of the Red-browed out from the old computer for comparison with the preceding shot of the White-throated Treecreeper.
All the metadata appears to be stripped. This was taken at Girraween NP over a year ago.
I don't remember the circumstances when taking this photo, but it may have been waiting near the nets for it's mates to return. Babblers live in close groups of 8 or a dozen birds, an extended family that travels closely together (usually 'babbling' between themselves, hence the name). So when trapped for banding there are often a few caught at once. The remaining family members will sometimes wait around the nets remaining more visible than they normally are, waiting for the return of the rest of the clan.
They are interesting because of this highly social behaviour (or maybe it's just a kind of sociability that we can appreciate more easily). They're cooperative breeders and each clan may have several breeding females who are fed and attended by the rest of the group when incubating the eggs. As well as breeding nests they also build numbers of roosting nests for communal resting and sleeping - you can see these untidily sprinkled around the countryside in trees and shrubs.
I find them hard to photograph as they don't remain still and are normally wary.