YELLOW-RUMPED THORNBILL

161         YELLOW-RUMPED THORNBILL       Acanthiza chrysorrhoa   

Australia          (161)

Largest of Thornbills. Found in short grass on edges of woodlands, scrubland, paddocks, golf-courses, farms, gardens. 11-13 cm. Ranges across Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and sw half WA, central Queensland, sw NT, and all SA except ne.

PIED BUTCHERBIRD

160        PIED BUTCHERBIRD         Cracticus nigrogularis

Australia    (160)

Found in drier woodlands, sub-inland, drier scrub, watercourses, pastoral land, roadsides, gardens. Range is mainland except drier deserts, Sydney and s. coast, e. and s. Victoria, much of SA, sw WA. Beautiful singing voice. 32-36 cm.

GREY BUTCHERBIRD

 159             GREY BUTCHERBIRD             Cracticus torquatus

Australia        (159)

Also known as Silver-backed Butcherbird, Derwent or Tasmanian Jackass. 24-30 cm. Range includes Tasmania, SA, Victoria, NSW, se half of Queensland, bottom half and top fifth of WA, areas to north and to south of NT. Found on margins of rain forests, vine-scrub, paperbarks, woodlands, coastal scrub, roadsides, parks.

Three subspecies in Australia:
torquatus:              over much of Australia, from southern half of WA to most of Q, NSW
leucopterus:          east coast of NSW, east and se of Victoria
cinereus:               eastern half of Tasmania.

Subspecies torquatus, photographed near Whyalla, South Australia, September 2018

BAR-SHOULDERED DOVE

158            BAR-SHOULDERED DOVE              Geopelia humeralis

Australia         (158)

Also called Pandanus Pigeon. 26-30 cm. Range across e. and n. coastal Australia from Shark Bay to Illawarra. Found in vegetation near water: tropical, sub-tropical scrubs, inland and coastal, gullies, gorges, mangroves, woodlands, lantana, Pandanus thickets.

HOODED ROBIN

157       HOODED ROBIN          Melanodryas cucullata

Australia       (157)

Ranges across drier woodlands/forests on mainland except Cape York, driest deserts and wetter coast.  Found in drier forests, woodlands, scrub with fallen logs, debris; mallee, cypress pines, mulga, cleared paddock, banksia dominated coastal regions. 14-17 cm, smaller in the n.  Photos taken near Rylston, June 2014.