CLAMOUROUS REED-WARBLER

Photographed at Bendigo, Victoria, November 2014.

420         CLAMOUROUS REED-WARBLER        Acrocephalus stentoreus

Australia              (294)

Also known as Australian Reed Warbler, Redbird, Reedlark, Water Sparrow. 16-17 cm. Habitat reeds, cumbungi, pencil rush, over water; river red gum regrowth; weeping willows, bamboos, crops near irrigation channels, public gardens. Widespread e. and coastal WA, mostly south of Tropic; uncommon in Tasmania. 

INLAND THORNBILL

Photographed at Burrendong, NSW, November 2014

419           INLAND THORNBILL          Acanthiza apicalis

Australia       (293)

9.5-11.5 cm. Found in dry scrubs, woodlands, in sw. WA wetter forests, coastal scrub, heaths, mangroves. Widespread inland Aust mainland, nw Vic, w. NSW, w. Q. west to all southern WA, all SA except se corner.    

SPECKLED WARBLER

Photographed while bird banding at Burrendong, NSW, November 2014

418            SPECKLED WARBLER            Chthonicola sagittata    

Australia         (292)

11.5-12.5 cm. Found in drier woodlands with tussocks, branches, rocks; in Q. mulga, brigalow, vine scrub. Range: se Aust. on and inland of Divide e. to Brisbane, from inland Mackay to w. Vic, to Grampians NP.