New Species - Western Whistler (Pachycephala occidentalis)

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  Higheagle

• Dec 18, 2016

Vey sweet capture, nicely done...

 

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  KC Foggin

• Dec 18, 2016

Such a beautiful image of this new species and only the third image posted in the Gallery!

A beautiful capture

 

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  delia todd

• Dec 18, 2016

My goodness, isn't he beautiful!!!

You've taken a wonderful picture of him MJ - many thanks for sharing him with us..... er... looks like you don't need to go to the other side of the world to get a tick eh!:-O

ooops... welll .... Anyway, I think this picture is a bit clearer than the one on the Opus article, so I'll upload your one there shortly. Thanks lad.

 

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  Rookery

• Dec 18, 2016

Beautiful capture of this lovely bird!!!
Dick.

 

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  Ken Doy

• Dec 18, 2016

Nice capture MJ. Believe it was actually split as a species Dec 31st 2014 . Tfs
Ken

 

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  Hans&Judy Beste

• Dec 18, 2016

Can't see any difference from the Eastern bird,but very nice capture indeed!

 

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  Maroon Jay

• Dec 18, 2016

I just noticed it in the 2016 Ebird Taxonomy Updates received recently. I guess it takes a long time after the split before it shows up on checklists.

 

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  Tiger1

• Dec 19, 2016

Golden Whistler is much more appropriate but i guess these so called experts have to fill in their time somehow.

Nice shot

Alex

 

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  Maroon Jay

• Dec 19, 2016

Yes, there is very little difference in these two birds but I guess DNA is more important than appearance.

 

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  Mohamad Kamrani

• Dec 19, 2016

Great close up , lovely bird , mtfs

mo