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| Photographed on Gibb River Road, Kimberley, Western Australia, May 2015 |
615 BLACK-TAILED TREECREEPER Climacteris melanura
Australia (458)
The largest and darkest of the Treecreepers. 17-20 cm. Found in open eucalypt forest, grassy woodlands and open scrub in hilly, breakaway country and lowlands; in nw Aust., large timber, red river gums on watercourses, dead trees. Range: from Carnarvon (WA), through Hamersley and Kimberley regions into NT, s. to Banka Banka-Alexandria; in nw. Q., e. to lower Leichhardt R.-Cloncurry. Isolated small, pale race wellsi in Pilbara region of WA.
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