PILOTBIRD

Barely recognisable photograph of a Pilotbird at Toolangi State Forest, Victoria November 2015

731                 PILOTBIRD             Pycnoptilus floccosus

Australia            (574)

Found in leaf-litter, ferns, sword-grass, wire-grass, fallen logs of temperate forest, wet eucalypt forest, and alpine and drier coastal woodland; gardens adjacent to forests. 16.5-17.5 cm. Range: patchily distributed in forests and dense scrubs in coastal and highland areas of Gt. Dividing Ra. from Dandenong Ras.-Wilson's Prom. (Vic) inland to Brindabella Ra. (ACT); n. to n. Blue Mountains, Heathecote NP, s. of Sydney (NSW). Mostly on ranges and in denser coastal forests from sea-level to c. 500 m. Fairly common. Sedentary.