Golden Whistler at Mungo Brush, NSW
Identification history
| Pachycephala pectoralis | 18 Oct 2023 | Liam.m | ||
| Pachycephala pectoralis | 18 Oct 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Pachycephala olivacea | 17 Oct 2023 | MichaelWenke |
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4 comments
MichaelWenke
wrote:
18 Oct 2023
@Liam.m - I've had two people identify this as an Olive Whistler on ABID. Just wanted to make sure we have a Golden Whistler here. Is there no possibility of it being an Olive Whistler?
Liam.m
wrote:
18 Oct 2023
yeah I wasn’t really too sure. I see why you’d say olive, but I’m still leaning towards golden. It is in a very very odd location, and the posture is throwing me off, generally I’d expect olives to be a bit stockier with a thicker bill. I’ve asked Luke for his opinion so we’ll see if he has any other input. You don’t happen to have any other photos? The colour might be accentuated slightly by the lighting.
Liam.m
wrote:
18 Oct 2023
Luke agrees with a weird looking golden. Largely for the same reasons (adding that Olive whistlers in that region are restricted to higher altitudes and very different habitats.). Size and posture is just not right for an olive.
MichaelWenke
wrote:
18 Oct 2023
I've had similar comments in ABID about this not being the right area for an Olive Whistler. The only explanation I can think of is that the original photo was underexposed so I had to lighten the shadows quite a bit in processing, so maybe that has affected the colouring.
Location information
- Coordinates 152.312692-32.539434
- Maps Myall Lakes National Park
- Places Mungo Brush, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 16 Oct 2023 09:25 AM Recorded on
- MichaelWenke Recorded by
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Species information
- Pachycephala pectoralis Scientific name
- Golden Whistler Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1341.8m Recorded at altitude
- 805 images trained Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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