Dusky Woodswallow at Macarthur, ACT
Identification history
| Artamus cyanopterus | 18 Apr 2020 | natureguy | ||
| Artamus cyanopterus | 15 Apr 2020 | RodDeb |
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6 comments
Illilanga
wrote:
17 Apr 2020
I can't really identify enough detail here from the silhouette to confirm Dusky Woodswallow. There have also been flocks around this size of White-Browed Woodswallows passing through our area at the moment. The numbers you have listed indicate that it might be them. Have you got any clearer photos or can you confirm you are certain they were Dusky? Maybe Luke can help as he confirmed the ID for sighting #4255874. Thanks, Sandra
natureguy
wrote:
17 Apr 2020
The underside of the tail is grey in White-browed Woodswallow with a solid white bar at the end (see https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Sightings/4240218). Dusky Wooswallow has a dark underside of the tail with white corners, which is visible in the last image of sighting 4255874. I can't really see this in this sighting, however the face in picture 1 seems to look more like Dusky. Still tentative.
RodDeb, if you noticed what the undertail looked like, can you please provide a comment. Another useful diagnostic feature is that Dusky's have white along the trailing edge of the wing, which distinguishes them from all other Australian Woodswallows.
RodDeb, if you noticed what the undertail looked like, can you please provide a comment. Another useful diagnostic feature is that Dusky's have white along the trailing edge of the wing, which distinguishes them from all other Australian Woodswallows.
RodDeb
wrote:
18 Apr 2020
They were Dusky's they showed white corners on the tail and the 2nd photo shows white on the trailing edge of the wing.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.128603-35.404410
- Places Macarthur, ACT
Sighting information
- 18 Abundance
- 14 Apr 2020 12:50 PM Recorded on
- RodDeb Recorded by
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Birds Other Birds Intermediate size RodDeb Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr NSW Government Priority Species
Species information
- Artamus cyanopterus Scientific name
- Dusky Woodswallow Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Vulnerable *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1237.6m Recorded at altitude
- 636 images trained Machine learning
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