ML609150245

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

Two seen at main clearing at 12:00; not in association with Red-browed or any other bird; 30+ mins of continued obs and photos until we became distracted and lost them. Spends most time on ground or deep in grasses, occasionally flies into vines/low trees when disturbed, before selecting a nearby patch of grass to continue feeding. Vocalises only very occasionally. Tended to use the grasses on the left hand side of the road near the walking track entry, and the roadside grasses just before the start of the clearing (never used same grasses as, or associated with, Red-browed Finch, but most other observers have reported otherwise. Never seen using weedy growth either, only grasses). Male individual more brightly coloured than the female. Admittedly we were beginning to worry we would dip - this bird was challenging to find and hard to relocate once lost. Male silver banded right lower (see photo - text hard to make out, possibly 0Z), the female not; both photographed well.

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