Citrus/olive yellow finch in lower blue mountains

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Hi all, I am new to the forum.
I live in Yarramundi in the foothills of the blue mountains, and I have a finch like bird in my back garden that is a bright yellow/olive colour all over. Likes the upper foliage and doesn’t come to the bird feeder around the front of the house like the other species. The closest I can find is a most yellow thornbill. I am not sure if this is what it is. Any ideas?
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It might be an olive finch but unfortunately it is only found in Brazil.
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Yellow thornbill, weebill & silvereye are a few possibilities. Is it tiny?
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Tiaris wrote: 05 May 2018, 12:52 Yellow thornbill, weebill & silvereye are a few possibilities. Is it tiny?


Hi, thanks for your reply, yes it is the size if not slightly smaller than a double bar finch, chunky body shape
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Firstly, WELCOME to the AFF, Fireguard.

A link to the most likely.... http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/silvereye.
...and candidate number 2.... http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile ... -thornbill
.....and number 3.....http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/weebill

It could be an aviary escapee of course, but that would be a long shot.
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Starman,

I reckon you are on the money with No1 given the location and it's behavior/description. Then again we are not there and it could be something from left field. Ahhh I love this site!

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Ken,
That was a toss of the coin... at first I was thinking Yellow Thornbill because of the colour description. I had no clue about the Weebill as I can't
recall having seen one.... I had to look it up after reading Tiaris' post. Silver Eyes are fairly common around these parts, but I have only seen the Thornbill on a family member's heavily wooded property. I had to go to the books to identify that one too. Although he is only about 30k ATCF from me,
I see a quite few different species there.... most of the time he can identify them for me, though occasionally not.
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starman wrote: 05 May 2018, 20:41 Ken,
That was a toss of the coin... at first I was thinking Yellow Thornbill because of the colour description. I had no clue about the Weebill as I can't
recall having seen one.... I had to look it up after reading Tiaris' post. Silver Eyes are fairly common around these parts, but I have only seen the Thornbill on a family member's heavily wooded property. I had to go to the books to identify that one too. Although he is only about 30k ATCF from
me, I see a quite few different species there.... most of the time he can identify them for me, though occasionally not.
Starman,
I still reckon you are on the money as I have seen them up close and personal, it was the first one that came to mind.

Thanks for the links by the way, wish I knew how to do them :crazy:
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matcho wrote: 05 May 2018, 20:47
starman wrote: 05 May 2018, 20:41 Thanks for the links by the way, wish I knew how to do them :crazy:
Well in that case Ken, here's another link: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=21293&p=185080#p185080
It becomes just a few reflexive mouse clicks once you have done it a few times.
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Apologies, I've messed up the order of those quotes and confused the issue.... but give it a go Ken, in no time it WILL become reflexive.

Now back on topic...
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