Tuesday 21 March 2017

Oops... mis-ID problem with my 2016 list!!!

Part of birding is identifying species, and part of identifying species is making mistakes. Of course, nobody sets out to make identification errors, but they happen, and this one happened to me. My photo #13 for 2016 which I had as an Olive-backed Oriole is in fact a female Australasian Fig Bird. This has been fixed now, but that means the numbers are all off by 1 up until #310 which is when I actually did get a photo of an Olive-backed Oriole, which is shown below. This photo was taken at Wonga Park, Victoria, on Dcember 11 2016.


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