Adult bird hidden in the brush, photographed at Bowra, Cunnamulla, Queensland September 2015 |
649 CHESTNUT-BREASTED QUAIL-THRUSH Cinclosoma castaneothorax
Australia (491)
18-24 cm. Found in mulga-eucalypts, other acacia scrubs, on stony ground; tea tree/mallee/grevillia on rocky hillocks. Range: sw Queensland, s. to c. White Cliffs-Cobar (NSW). Western race was recently separated into Western Quail-thrush.
Young bird in the open, at Bowra |