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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: November 21, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Plumed Whistling Ducks, Eyton Tree Ducks, Dendrocygna eytoni, identify these birds, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery birds] Plumed Whistling Ducks, also known as Eyton Tree Ducks, Dendrocygna eytoni, photographed at Atherton, Queensland, Australia. [I will identify these birds for you in 48 hours]
Image: Steve Duncan, 26 August 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200 w/ Nikkor 300mm f/4 & TC17E.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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a flock of Plumed Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna eytoni): brown upperparts, paler underparts and a white rump; breast is chestnut with thin black bars and long white black-margined feathers rise from its flanks; bill and legs are pink...
close-up photo of the Plumed Whistling Duck
I'm going to come back to confirm the solitary dark bird, right hand side of the photo, moving left to right but without a magnifying glass to hand it looks like a Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)...
Posted by: David | November 21, 2009 10:48 AM
yep, I'm going to stick with the loner as being Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus, the North and eastern Australia subspecies of the Purple Swamphen or Pūkeko (in Māori)...
Pūkeko photographed in Victoria, Australia
Posted by: David | November 21, 2009 10:59 AM
not sure why my last photolink didn't work... here it is again:
Pūkeko photographed in Victoria, Australia
Posted by: David | November 21, 2009 8:01 PM