This year’s annual lirralirra mystery images are silhouettes. Some were taken that way while others took ages to turn into silhouettes in lightroom, and one took even longer using ‘marching ants’ in photoshop. I am seriously hopeless at using photoshop, luckily it’s not generally needed for nature photography.
Mystery Silhouette 1
Mystery Silhouette 2
Mystery Silhouette 3
Mystery Silhouette 4
Mystery Silhouette 5
Mystery Silhouette 6
Mystery Silhouette 7
Mystery Silhouette 8
Mystery Silhouette 9
Mystery Silhouette 10
Usually getting 50% on these quizzes is pretty awesome, even 20%, as they are often trickier than I realise. This year I think there could be some people getting 70-100% – I hope so. Put guesses to any or all of the silhouettes in the comments if you’d like to and I’ll share the answers next week – good luck!
Oh, and I don’t expect the specific species unless it’s obvious by particular features other than colour.
Happy birding
Kim
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Australian Magpie
Purple Swamphen
Australasian Darter
Black Swan
WTE
Crested tern
Superb Fairy Wren
Little Cormorant
Azure Kingfisher
Eastern Great Egret
Mystery Guesses
1 Magpies
2 Swamp-hen
3 Darter
4 Swan
5 Wedge-tailed Eagle
6 Gannet
7 Wren
8 Cormorant
9 Kingfisher
10Egret
1 babblers or apostle birds
2 NZ pukaho
3: darter or cormorant
4 Black swan
5 little eagle
6 Gannet
7 fairy wren
8. Comorans
9. Kingfisher
10 Great Egret
Somehow I left mine on the snakebird page…
Here I am again.
1. Australian Magpies. 2. Purple Moorhen
3. Australasian Darter 5. Black Swan
5. Wedgie 6. No clue
7. Fairywren 8. Cormorant
9. Kingfisher probably Forest. 10 Great Egret.
Hi Kim,
What a great idea! Surprising how tricky some of them are…here are my guesses:
Starlings
Purple Swamphen
Darter
Black Swan
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Gull of some sort? This was the trickiest!
Fairy-wren (Superb?)
Little Pied Cormorant
Sacred Kingfisher
Eastern Great Egret
Thanks for all your beautiful photos. You take some really extraordinary shots and bring out the characters of your subjects.
Kind regards,
Tiffany.
Hi Kimberley
Here are my thoughts
1-Australian magpie,
2-Purple Swamphen,
3-Australsian Darter,
4-Australian Black Swan,
5-Wedgtailed Eagle,
6-Gull Billed Tern,
7-Superb Fairy Wren,
8-Little Pied Cormorant,
9-Laughing Kookaburra,
10-Eastern Great Egret
Regards
David
Australian magpie
Australasian swamp hen
Darter
Black Swan
Wedge tailed eagle
Gannet
Red backed fairy wren
Little pied cormorant
Sacred kingfisher
Eastern great egret
Magpie swamphen darter swan wedgie gannet fairy-wren little black cormorant kingfisher great egret
1: Australian Magpie
2: Australasian Swamphen
3: Australasian Darter
4: Black Swan
5: Wedge-tailed Eagle
6: Tern
7: Fairy-wren
8: Cormorant
9: Kingfisher
10: Brolga
What a fun idea this is:
1. Australian Magpie
2. Purple Swamp Hen
3. Australasian Darter
4. Black Swan
5. Wedge-tailed Eagle
6. Australasian Gannet
7. Superb Fairy-wren
8. Little Pied Cormorant
9. Sacred Kingfisher
10. Great Egret
1.? Apostle birds or white winged choughs
2. Swamp hen
3. Cormorant
4. Black Swan
5. ?Wedge tailed eagle
6. ?Gannet
7. Fairy wren
8. Darter
9. King Fisher
10. Great Egret
My guesses:
1. Little raven
2. Australasian swamphen
3. Darter
4. Black swan
5. Wedge-tailed eagle
6. crested tern?
7. Superb fairy-wren
8. Little black cormorant
9. Sacred kingfisher
10. Great egret
Thx Kim for prodding the brain cells on this Saturday morning.
Choughs
Purple Swamp Hen
Heron
Cormorant
Black Swan
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Tern
Wren
Little Cormorant
Kookaburra
Great Egret
1. White-winged chough.
2. Purple Swamphen
3. Australasian Darter
4. Black swan
5. Wedge-tailed eagle
6. Gannet
7. Fairy-wren
8. Cormorant
9. Kingfisher (sacred or maybe red-backed)
10. Great Egret
Oo the featured one is tricky!
1. Magpies
2. Maybe a baby something watery?
3. Darter
4. Black swan
5. Wedge tailed eagle
6. That sea bird that is white with the yellow stripe on the inside of its wing. I think it could be a bird of paradise. I think it’s from Lord Howe Island?
7. Thornbill
8. Cormorant
9. Kookaburra
10. Brolga? It’s so long!
Great quiz as always!
Ah, I now think that number two is a purple swamphen
I will have to come back when more of my brain is firing.
I do (fortunately) recognise a couple at first glance (I think), but others require more thought. I hadn’t realised how much I rely on colour…
1. Apostelbirds
2. Raven
3. Darter
4. Swan
5. Eagle
6. Gull
7. Fairywren
8. Little Black Cormorant
9. Kingfisher
10. Egret
I’m guessing:
Magpies
Pukeko
Darter
Black swan
Wedge tailed eagle
Tern?
Fairy wren
Cormorant
Kingfisher
Egret
1# Magpies.
2# Purple Swamphen.
3# Australian Darter.
4# Black Swan.
5# Wedge-tailed Eagle.
6# Australian Gannet.
7# Superb Fairywren.
8# Little Pied Cormorant.
9# Sacred Kingfisher.
10# Great Egret.
3 Australian Magpies, Purple Swamphen, Australian Darter, Black Swan, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Australian Gannett, a fairy-wren, a cormorant, a kingfisher and Great Egret
1. Australian Magpie, 2. Purple Swamphen, 3 Australasian Darter, 4. Black Swan, 5. Wedge-tailed Eagle, 6. Australasian Gannet, 7. Super Fairywren, 8. Little Pied Cormorant, 9. Azure Kingfisher, 10. Eastern Great Egret
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