Showing posts with label Eopsaltria pulverulenta. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

MANGROVE ROBIN

Photographed at Cygnet Bat Pearl, trip to Waterfall Reef, Western Australia, June 2015
629             MANGROVE ROBIN                Eopsaltria pulverulenta   

Australia        (472)

14.5-16.5 cm. Found in dense, low thickets of coastal mangroves; on coasts, tidal creeks, river mouths. Range: coastal tropical Aust. from c. NW Cape (WA) to c. Proserpine (Q), with breaks where mangroves absent; points on Gulf coast (Q). Locally common.