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  1. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I think it's like with many Arabic names, with non-standardised versions of spelling, don't really care either way, we went through all this with Macgregor/MacGregor's Bowerbird and either seemed fine to me. I don't have a problem with Spot-breasted Cuckoo Dove.
  2. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Wetar and Timor are in Sunda, not Australasia
  3. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Looks good and certainly worth adding
  4. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Did you see the bird rather than just photographing it? If you did the grey would be very apparent assuming it's Cambodian Tailorbird, your images certainly look plausible.
  5. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Common, Dark-necked and Cambodian are all in the Phnom Penh area, if it's grey above then must be Cambodian but but I can't tell the colour from the photo
  6. sicklebill

    Bird ID - Thala Beach near Port Douglas, Queensland and Sydney Botanical Grdns - Jan 24

    definitely Black Butcherbird, immature plumage, otherwise agree with the Fern
  7. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Brown Flycatcher and Plaintive Cuckoo; where was the tailorbird photographed?
  8. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 21

    I'll stay with my original thought which was Variable, for all the reasons given above
  9. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 21

    In which case Gre In which case Grey-headed Goshawk may be an option if so
  10. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 22

    Having enlarged the photo I agree, Fawn-breasted is there
  11. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 21

    Agree, this is what comes of viewing these photos on a small screen....
  12. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 22

    Puff-backed looks a reasonable choice The doves are Orange-bellied No idea what 3 could be, can't see enough Coconut Lorikeet for the last parrots
  13. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 23

    Agreed with white morph Variable Goshawk, not sure how frequent the white morph is at Nimbokrang
  14. sicklebill

    Id Help - Nimbokrang, West Papua - 21

    1 Looks rather like a falcon, seems to have a moustachial pattern 2 Long-billed Honeyeater 3 Rainbow Bee-eater 4 Long-billed Honeyeater 5 Rainbow Bee-eater
  15. sicklebill

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I stepped out for a pee in the Sepik in PNG, and had Bare-eyed Rail walk right past.
  16. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 15

    Yep, fair enough, it was my first thought as Great-billed but too rushed today, thanks
  17. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 15

    1 might be a Cuckooshrike 2. Scared Kingfisher 3 Spotted Honeyeater 4 Olive-crowned Flowerpecker 5 Brahminy Kite 6 Papuan Eclectus, looks atypically long-time but everything else fits 7 Blyth's Hornbill, or Papuan Hornbill if you remove the eponym
  18. sicklebill

    [Fiji, Taveuni] Separating Silktails

    The two silktails are separated on range basically, and the Natewa bird has a very limited range in quite disturbed habitat on the Natewa Peninsula of Vanua Levu, it looks notably smaller in my experience and I am not aware of any bill shape distinctions. Vocals would be of interest but both...
  19. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 14

    Agree to all the identifications
  20. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 12

    Looking again at that manucode photo, I think the bill colour is an artefact of lighting, and the blue on the shoulder plus the tail nails it as Glossy-Mantled
  21. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 12

    Better reception now, so I think the first is Black Butcherbird, I can see a blue-grey bill, the distant small bird looks like one of the bronze-cuckoos and the shorebird looks Whimbrel-like
  22. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 12

    My Internet at Iron Range is very poor so I can't open the photos, but yes to Rufous-bellied Kookaburra and Black Sunbird anyway
  23. sicklebill

    Dark "Heron/Egret" near Jambiani in Zanzibar - June 2023

    Check your IOC checklist where it is listed, the whole taxonomy is murky though and eBird has it as Little (Dimorphic).The bird looks like the Madagascar ones....
  24. sicklebill

    Dark "Heron/Egret" near Jambiani in Zanzibar - June 2023

    Dimorphic Egret for me
  25. sicklebill

    Id Help - Waigeo, West Papua - 10

    Golden Monarch and Frilled Monarch, presumably Sultan's Cuckoo Dove and 2 of the yellow ear spot honeyeater complex
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