I'm not sure what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's neither a fantail or a white-fronted chat, although both are good guesses. (Fantail's don't normally have the white face with black bib, and neither chats nor whistlers have the white wing bars). Will have to think about this one.....
it doesn't have a white face with black bib, it has a black head with a white chin bar and white spot above the eye. Its head is tilted slightly and the branch disguises the pattern.
Here is a pic from a few weeks prior in a different park of a grey fantail. I think that fantails look a bit fatter than the bird in question in this thread. Also, the bird in question wasn't displaying a fan and wagging its tail around, as far as I recall.
fantails generally look plump but not always, and they don't always display the tail-fanning behaviour. Google images of grey fantails and you'll see what I mean.
Also you'd be hard-pressed to find another bird with those relative dimensions (especially the tail length).
fantails generally look plump but not always, and they don't always display the tail-fanning behaviour. Google images of grey fantails and you'll see what I mean.
Also you'd be hard-pressed to find another bird with those relative dimensions (especially the tail length).
well it has to be a flycatcher*, so check the flycatcher pages of your field guide and see if anything else matches the pattern. There may be something I haven't thought of, but I can't really see it being anything except a fantail.
*in the general sense, before they split the flycatchers into lots of smaller groupings like fantails and such.
