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(Message started by: geoff_welch on Feb 7^th, 2006, 5:43pm)

Title: ? Thrush at Po Toi
Post by geoff_welch on Feb 7^th, 2006, 5:43pm

http://www.geocities.com/geoffwelch46/Thrush3_PoToi_020206
http://www.geocities.com/geoffwelch46/Thrush5_PoToi_020206

Thrush at Po Toi today and last week. Is it Eye-browed First winter?

Title: Re: ? Thrush at Po Toi
Post by Mike Kilburn on Feb 8^th, 2006, 9:16pm

Agree.

The white eyebrow and the white mark below the eye are a good feature according to the field guide.

The complete orange breast band means that it must be either Eye-browed or Brown-headed (and cannot be Grey-backed Thrush), but Brown-headed does not show the pale mark under the eye.

This is a book-based opinion - I've only seen one Brown-headed and very few Eye-browed Thrushes in winter.

Cheers
Mike K

Title: Re: ? Thrush at Po Toi
Post by Paul Leader on Feb 9^th, 2006, 11:17am

It is a first-winter male Brown (or Brown-headed) Thrush. The flanks are too richly coloured for Eyebrowed which shows more apricot coloured flanks, plus the upperparts are too dark, the facial pattern not well marked enough and the bill on Eyebrowed shows an obvious yellow base.