These stunning autumn visitors are infrequent subjects at our ponds. It has taken 5 years to collect the footage shown here and they only visit 3 of our 7 ponds - mostly in May.
Golden Whistlers are altitudinal migrants, they are seen in the plains and Box-Ironbark forests during autumn/winter, brown females and immature birds are often in the bigger numbers. We have much more footage of the brown females.
Golden Whistlers and Flame Robins move back to the foothills and high country to breed in early spring/summer. This video shows different male Golden Whistlers that have visited briefly over the years. During the non-breeding season, they move into open habitats and sexes appear to separate.
Golden Whistlers have been shown to live for over 15 years.
Males do not stay long in mixed feeding flocks, while females appear to stay in the same flock throughout the day. Males also associate significantly more often with other yellow birds like Crested Shrike-tits and Eastern Yellow Robins. Unfortunately they mostly visit the ponds one after the other rather than together so we cannot easily show this association.
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