GREY-HEADED ROBIN

photographed at Kingfisher Birdwatching Lodge, Julatten, Queensland September 2015

656       GREY-HEADED ROBIN               Heteromyias albispecularis

Australia    (498)

16-18 cm. Found mostly in highland rainforests and margins of tracks, roads, lawns in rainforest parks, but to near sea-level where habitat runs unbroken down from highlands. Range: ne. Queensland: coastal highlands (and some lowlands) from near Cooktown to My. Spec, near Townsville. Common. Sedentary.

YELLOW-SPOTTED HONEYEATER

Photographed at Crystal Creek caravan park, September 2015

655          YELLOW SPOTTED HONEYEATER      Meliphaga notata

Australia         (497)

Also known as Lesser Lewin Honeyeater. 17.5 cm. Found in rainforests, monsoon forests, vine scrubs, eucalypt woodlands, watercourses, mangroves, bananas, cultivation, lantana, gardens; mostly below c. 400m. Range: ne. Queensland from Cape York s. to Aurukun R. on w. coast; Townsville on e. coast in lower foothills, coastal islands. Nomadic.

LOVELY FAIRYWREN

Photographed at Crystal Creek caravan Park, Queensland September 2015

654          LOVELY FAIRYWREN       Malurus amabilis

Australia        (496)

11.5-13 cm. Found in margins, clearings/tracks in rainforests; vine scrub, swamp-woodland, mangroves; well-vegetated watercourses, wastelands. Range: ne. Queensland: from Townsville-Atherton Tableland to Cape York Pen., s. on w coast to c. Edward R.  Common, sedentary.

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.

HORNBILL FRIARBIRD

Photographed at Crystal Creek Caravan Park, Queensland September 2015

652           HORNED FRIARBIRD         Philemon yorki

Australia        (494)   

Newly split from the Helmeted Friarbird. 

EUNGELLA HONEYEATER

Photographed near the village of Eungella, Queensland September 2015.

651          EUNGELLA HONEYEATER              Lichenostomus hinwoodi

Australia          (493)             

Found in rainforest above c. 600 m 16-18 CM; lower eucalypt woodlands in winter. Endemic to Australia. Range limited to Eungella NP-Mt Dalrymple State Forest on Clarke Range., 80 kms w. of Mackay (Q).