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A Olden Whistler was hand raised and released in this area and it often comes to visit, just perching on our deck. Adult male Golden Whistlers are certainly the most attractive of all eight species of whistler to occur in Australia. Females and immatures are a different matter - they are among the plainest brown and unmarked birds we have

By Greg Miles from Australia (Golden Whistler) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons