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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tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
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Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus':
Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec?
(Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.)
Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.
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)...
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 PÅ«keko (in MÄori)...
PÅ«keko photographed in Victoria, Australia
not sure why my last photolink didn't work... here it is again:
PÅ«keko photographed in Victoria, Australia