'Yellow' Starling in Grantham....

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:02 pm

'Yellow' Starling in Grantham....

Photo taken by Richard Cross near Harrowby, Grantham - July 2013.

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:16 pm

Is this Xanthochromism (also called xanthochroism or xanthism)???

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthochromism

ANdrew

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

not sure how much is a photo artefact of yellow light reflecting from below, presumably not all but the whole image has a yellow cast and the upper third of the bird is the normal colour in the image --

John Clarkson · **Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:09 pm

Bill looks long and decurved more than I'd expect. Could be a Honeyeater!!!

John

Jon Salmon · **Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:49 pm

i think you may be right, just googled images and the first one is bang on has someone been on holiday or is the bird a stowaway :lol:

Mike Tarrant · **Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:51 pm

Although the previous correspondent appears to have spotted the bird on the internet, he does not state which honeyeater he has decided it is. Although my experience of honeyeaters is zero, looking at the Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 13 on the huge and diverse family of honeyeaters, the depictions there do not seem to show one that fits the bill (sic) nor the rest of the bird for that matter.
Mike Tarrant

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:18 pm

honeyeater more like a bumble bee :lol:

terry whalin

Jon Salmon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:29 pm

brown honeyeater resident in austrailia

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:48 pm

yes I know where it is resident seen it several times, not seen a honeyeater this side of Fiji, not been to Hawaii. if you count miner myzomelas and friarbird group, all honeyeaters, seen over 50 types this species plus sub species.

terry whalin

Mike Tarrant · **Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:25 pm

I would have to disagree that the Brown Honeycreeper resembles the starling in the above image. That species' bill is not the same shape in that it is deeper at the base tapering towards the tip where it is markedly down-curved.
Mike Tarrant

Phil Hyde · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:14 am

It's surely a xanthochromic Starling (assuming no tricks of the light, per GPC) ?
Phil

John Clarkson · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:58 am

I was joking!

John

Phil Hyde · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:31 am

I know you were !

Jon Salmon · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:44 pm

having looked at 100s of google images I even found a pic of a very similar bird on a bird feeder I also have seen these birds in their home environment, but interesting [-X

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:23 pm

I also know you were hence the :lol:

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