rich_fuller's Identifications

Moving about in the canopy of a brazil coral tree. Note: a LOT of tall grass immediately to the north, northwest and northeast of this location, which would have been this bird's territory, has been slashed flat to ground level, recently; this poor bird has probably lost about a half to a third of its usual forage, shelter and nest sites, besides being more exposed to aggression from the swarms of off-lead dogs that have 24-hour unrestricted access to the entire riparian zone for about a kilometre both up and down stream from this point (and they do not merely have that access within an officially-designated off-leash zone; the official zone is unfenced, poorly demarcated, and many or most dog owners who use it routinely ignore the boundary markers and turn their dogs loose to rummage and hunt in the riparian zone at least 100 metres up and down stream from it).

The out of focus bird at the back of the photo. Note the black tail and white stripe above the black bar on the tail.

Other birds are Bar-tailed Godwit

Known bird in this location for some weeks at the time the photo was taken. I did have better views but my camera went flat and had to walk back to the car for a new battery and light was fading by the time I was back with the Godwits.

See my eBird checklist here:

https://ebird.org/checklist/S187477589

The other contributor to the checklist got better photos of the same bird.