Monday, January 4, 2016

RUSSET-TAILED THRUSH

Photographed at Mary Cairncross Nature Reserve, Queensland January 2016
742              RUSSET-TAILED THRUSH           Zoothera heini

Australia          (585)

25-27 cm. Range: mountain rainforests, wetter woodlands in coastal e. Aust., from Hawkesbury R. (NSW) to highlands of ne. Q., to n. of Cairns. In ne NSW, occurs on GT. Dividing Range up to c. 775 m. Sedentary; autumn movements to coastal lowlands in n. NSW-se Q.