GILBERT'S WHISTLER

Photogrpahed at Terrick Terrick National Park, Victoria November 2015

729             GILBERT’S WHISTLER              Pachycephala inornata

Australia            (572)

Found in taller drier scrubs; woodlands with dense understorey; mallee-spinifex, cypress-pine, mulga, belar, buloke, coastal tee-tree; black box/lignum, broom honey myrtle. 19-20 cm. Range: from Warrumbungles NP-Cowra-Tocumwal (NSW), s to upper Murray R (Vic)- Chiltern-Nagambie (casual You Yangs), w to Wimmeraand mallee areas of nw Vic; in SA Murray mallee-flinders Ras to n Yorke Pen-Eyre., w. to Gawler Ras-Gt Victoria Desert; in s WA, through s W. Deserts, w and n to Menzies-Paynes Find-Yalgoo, s.to c. Northam-Narrogin-Albany. Uncommon. Sedentary or nomadic.

AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN

Photographed at Fiveborough Wetlands, Leeton, NSW November 2015 (at about 8 pm)

728          AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN        Botaurus poiciloptilus

Australia            (571)

Also called Australian or Brown Bittern. 66-76 cm; wingspan 1-1.2 m. Found in, or over, water in tall reed-beds, sedges, rushes, combungi, lignum, also rice fields; drains in tussocky paddocks; occasionally salt marsh, brackish wetlands. Seldom in trees. Range: coastal and sub-coastal se Aust., esp. Murray-Murrumbidgee region; se Tas., far s WA; casual Kimberley (WA). Sedentary, uncommon.

SHY HEATHWREN

Photographed at Nombinnie nature Reserve, NSW November 2015

727             SHY HEATHWREN              Hylacola cauta

Australia           (570)

Also called Mallee Heathwren. 11.5-14 cm. Found in mallee, cypress pine, heathy mallee/tea-tree. Range: mallee areas of w. NSW-nw Vict.-se SA (and Kangaroo Is, n to s. Flinders Ras.-Gawler Ras.; in s WA, n. to Kalgoolie-Murchison R.; except w. of Dongala-Stirling NP. Uncommon, sedentary.