GIBBERBIRD

Photographed just outside of Cooper Pedy June 20116

787          GIBBERBIRD           Ashbyia lovensis

Australia         (631)

Found in open gibber, with sparse dwarf bushes, grass-turf; wind scalded, bare earth in saltbush-bluebush. 12.5 cm. Range: inland e. Aust.: far s NT; far w. Q.; far nw NSW; ne SA; vagrant inland WA. Uncommon, nomadic.

CHESTNUT-BREASTED WHITEFACE

Photographed at Cooper Pedy June 2016

786          CHESTNUT-BREASTED WHITEFACE             Aphelocephala pectoris

Australia           (630)

Found in semi-desert tablelands with bare ground and gibber, sparsely vegetated with bluebush, saltbush, black oak, mulga etc with sparse grass, ‘dead finish’ Acacia tetragonophylla, and Eremophila app. 10 cm. Range: confined to nc and ne SA. Rare, elusive; locally nomadic.