WESTERN WHIPBIRD

Photographed at Cheyne's Beach (WA) November 2016

934                  WESTERN WHIPBIRD              Psophodes nigrogularis

AUSTRALIA               (655)

Also known as Black-throated or Mallee Whipcord. 20-26 cm. Found in dense unburned thickets of low eucalypt: mallee, banksia, acacia, tea-tree, coastal heath; broome honeymyrtle, tall spinifex. Distribution: four subspecies in small fragmented pockets from s WA to s SA-w Victoria, reduced by clearing, burning; rare and endangered.

EASTERN CATTLE EGRET

Subspecies coromandus photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see  216)                 CATTLE EGRET                Bibulous coromandus

SINGAPORE               (94)

Common migrant; found mostly in grasslands, occasionally freshwater marshes, avoids salt water, rarely seen on coastal mudflats; in Singapore often seen foraging near grass-cutters and lawnmowers. 52 cm. Widespread across Indian sub-continent, E and Southeast Asia, east to Australia; partly introduced in Singapore.