WHITE-BROWED ROBIN

Photographed at Crystal Creek Caravan Park, Queensland September 2015

653          WHITE-BROWED ROBIN          Poecilodryas supercilious

Australia        (495)

14-17 cm. Found in Q. in rainforests, vine scrub, vegetation along watercourses; coastal scrubs, nearby eucalypt woodlands, especially in wet season. In nw. Aust. pockets of monsoon rainforest, swamp woodlands, bamboo and pandanus thickets by watercourses and springs; mangroves. Range: Nominate race: coastal ne Q, vegetation rivers and streams; highland rainforests n. from Rockhampton to C. York, s. to Mitchell R. on w. Pen. coast. race cerviniventris: from Gregory R., in Gulf lowlands (Q), w. on streams, rivers, marginally to mangroves, to w. Kimberley region and upper Fitzroy R. (WA). Local, patchy; generally uncommon. Sedentary.