Help ID this bird. NSW Australia (1 Viewer)

[DeesBackyardBids]

This could be the 100th bird species to visit my backyard (if it is not a juvenille or opposite gender to a bird that has already visited.)
I spotted this bird eating the flowers on a wild plum tree in our yard.

 

[delia todd]

It looks like a Eurasian Blackbird (female/juvenile). They were introduced to Australia.

Caught me out when I was in Adelaide, forgotten what I thought it was until I posted the picture on here and dropped myself right in it LOL!!!

 

[DeesBackyardBids]

It looks like a Eurasian Blackbird (female/juvenile). They were introduced to Australia.

Caught me out when I was in Adelaide, forgotten what I thought it was until I posted the picture on here and dropped myself right in it LOL!!!

Thank you so much for that. I just researched this bird and I think you are right.. HOORAY my 100th bird species to my backyard.

 

[THE_FERN]

I totally agree with the id. I don't know if it's a photo artifact (don't think so) but it looks a little odd compared with "our" UK blackbirds: large bill, the white throat and the rufous chest. I wonder if the Oz birds are starting to diverge...

 

[lockbreeze926]

I totally agree with the id. I don't know if it's a photo artifact (don't think so) but it looks a little odd compared with "our" UK blackbirds: large bill, the white throat and the rufous chest. I wonder if the Oz birds are starting to diverge...

Aha - split! split! split!

Turdus novaehollandiae.

 

[delia todd]

I totally agree with the id. I don't know if it's a photo artifact (don't think so) but it looks a little odd compared with "our" UK blackbirds: large bill, the white throat and the rufous chest. I wonder if the Oz birds are starting to diverge...

I do see some of mine with that white throat patch.

 

[chowchilla]

I totally agree with the id. I don't know if it's a photo artifact (don't think so) but it looks a little odd compared with "our" UK blackbirds: large bill, the white throat and the rufous chest. I wonder if the Oz birds are starting to diverge...

Aus' blackbirds always looked to me like they had bigger bills. Could be a bit of selection pressure on an isolated population, mebs. I hadn't noticed colour variations, but that's not to say they don't exist there.

 

[maplekong]

I totally agree with the id. I don't know if it's a photo artifact (don't think so) but it looks a little odd compared with "our" UK blackbirds: large bill, the white throat and the rufous chest. I wonder if the Oz birds are starting to diverge...

Northern Irish ones have no throat patch at all, nor are they rufous in any way, just drab sooty brown.