i.d please

[rukuhia]

After a recent trip to denerau in Fiji could someone please confirm i.d of these birds?

[Charlotte]

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.

[Neil Fitzgerald]

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).

[gmckinlay]

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.

[SomesBirder]

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.

[rukuhia]

Thanks i wasnt sure how to tell the difference of the silver eyes and this photo may be better of the frigate bird.

[sav]

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

[rukuhia]

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.

[Clinton9]

Frigatebird were a 1-year-old greater, in moult from juvenile plumage to 1st immature plumage.