Tuesday, September 15, 2015

CHESTNUT-BREASTED QUAIL-THRUSH

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