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Chalcites osculans
This beautiful, curious little bird has white eyebrows and a wide, black eye-stripe. The crown seems to be gray extending over the back and wings. The chin, throat chest and body are a creamy kind of colour. There appears to be wide, horizontal, dark gray stripes on the under-tail feathers and the outer-tail feathers are plain dark gray. At first glance I thought this was a young Grey-crowned Babbler. However, I've only ever seen them hanging out in a flock of 6 or more and this little one was alone - so I'm completely unsure what it is.
Found in this tree along the edge of the Mankajarra Wetlands
Thank you Joshua for the verification :) I checked out this site: http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/...
Spotted on Aug 3, 2014
Submitted on Aug 5, 2014
4 Comments
My pleasure.
Awesome! Thank you for the verification Joshua!!!
You got it! This species is not very common in this area, cool find.
I'm not sure enough to change from Unknown but I was wondering if someone was able to verify if this is a Black-eared Cuckoo (Chalcites osculans)??? It can be found here in the Kimberley region...