i.d please
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i.d please
After a recent trip to denerau in Fiji could someone please confirm i.d of these birds?
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The first photo looks a lot like a wax-eye or silver-eye, similar to what we have in NZ.
The second bird looks like a Frigate bird (Lesser?)
Third picture, I'm unsure.
The second bird looks like a Frigate bird (Lesser?)
Third picture, I'm unsure.
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I guess the first could be Fiji white-eye (Zosterops explorator). I don't know the 50 or so white-eyes very well, or what, if any other species there are in Fiji, but it looks right for it (bit yellower than latteralis).
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The frigate bird looks to be a juvenile greater (based on the head colour and lack of white auxiliary spurs onto the underwing.
Best guide I have found to distinguishing the many frigatebird plumage variations is by David James, e.g. "Identification of Christmas Island,
Great and Lesser Frigatebirds", BirdingAsia, 2014 p22-28. Pdf will be online somewhere.
Best guide I have found to distinguishing the many frigatebird plumage variations is by David James, e.g. "Identification of Christmas Island,
Great and Lesser Frigatebirds", BirdingAsia, 2014 p22-28. Pdf will be online somewhere.
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Fiji has both their endemic white-eye and the silvereye. Not sure which silvereye subspecies they have, though.
As for the third bird, my guess is slaty monarch.
As for the third bird, my guess is slaty monarch.
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Thanks i wasnt sure how to tell the difference of the silver eyes and this photo may be better of the frigate bird.
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Hi,
I've never been to Fiji, but it seems that the Silvereye is just that (ssp flaviceps) and not the endemic Fijian species, which reputedly has a very short tail and is much more yellow underneath.
The frigate is surely a Greater - no spurs onto the underwing, and it has the right jizz for a Greater v Lesser.
I wonder if the third bird is a Golden Whistler? It has the right shape and general colouration, but I don't know what young/females look like in Fiji. The whole Golden Whistler tribe is ripe for about 50 splits so it's probably going to be a Fijian endemic soon!
cheers
I've never been to Fiji, but it seems that the Silvereye is just that (ssp flaviceps) and not the endemic Fijian species, which reputedly has a very short tail and is much more yellow underneath.
The frigate is surely a Greater - no spurs onto the underwing, and it has the right jizz for a Greater v Lesser.
I wonder if the third bird is a Golden Whistler? It has the right shape and general colouration, but I don't know what young/females look like in Fiji. The whole Golden Whistler tribe is ripe for about 50 splits so it's probably going to be a Fijian endemic soon!
cheers
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Thanks everyone i have gone with, silvereye, greater frigate and i think the third is a vanikoro flycatcher as it has that look and i did see plenty of them.
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Frigatebird were a 1-year-old greater, in moult from juvenile plumage to 1st immature plumage.