OLIVE WHISTLER

Photographed at Toolangi State Forest, Victoria November 2015

732               OLIVE WHISTLER             Pachycephala olivacea   

Australia         (575)

Found in alpine thickets, wetter rainforests/forests/woodlands; watercourse-vegetation; coastal tee-tree/paperbark scrubs, heaths; blackberries, gardens. More open habitats autumn and winter. In ne. NSW-se Queensland beech forest above c. 500 m. 20-22 cm. Range: coastal se Australia: from far se SA-sw Vic. patchily to Otway Ras. (Vic), n. coastal to se Q. in wetter forests/alpine woods of Gt. Dividing Ra, to about 1500 m; inland to c. Ballarat-Victorian Alps-Snowy-Brindabella Ra. (ACT)-Blue Mts (NSW). Dispersing to lowlands in autumn-winter.Uncommon, sedentary, altitudinal migrant.

Subspecies macphersoniana, at Gloucester Tops, NSW

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.