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| Photographed Airey's Inlet, Victoria, February 2015 |
494 RUFOUS BRISTLEBIRD Dasyornis broadbenti
Australia (335)
This is the largest of the Bristlebirds, 24-27 cm. Found in coastal scrubs and tickets, gullies with rank growth of sword grass, blackberries, etc, undergrowth in gullies and temperate forests. Range from mouth of Murray River e. along to Ironbark Basin near Torquay (Vic); and possible pocket WA near C. naturalist to C. Leeuwin but possibly extinct.
what a fabulous name - kind of name to create envy in the ranks of the little raven and pink robin
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