RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH

 

Photographed on the Rainforest walk, Iluka, NSW, January 2024

1336                      RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH                  Colluricincla rufogaster          

AUSTRALIA                   812

Formerly conspecific member of Little Shrike-thrush complex. Found in New Guinea and Australia. It is found in New Guinea and Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

ARAFURA SHRIKE-THRUSH

Photographed at Kakadu, North Territory, May 2016.

1308                  ARAFURA SHRIKE-THRUSH                Colluricincla megarhyncha

AUSTRALIAN                    793          

Formerly considered a conspecific member of Little Shrike-thrush complex but genetic investigations found it a separate species, and with three subspecies: megarhyncha (found on Salawati, Misool and Are Islands and New Guinea; parvula (found in nw WA and NT); and aruensis (Trans-Fly region of New Guinea). Natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Darwin, 2024

SANDSTONE SHRIKE-THRUSH

Photographed at Duwadarri Lookout, Boodjamulla National Park, Queensland October 2015

725            SANDSTONE SHRIKE-THRUSH             Colluricincla woodwardi

Australia          (567)

Found in sandstone escarpments/gorges. 24-26 cm. Range: from escarpments of “Gulf fall” in far nw Q, Kakadu NP and Litchfield  Ck NP (NT), to w. Kimberley (WA), s. to region of Fitroy Crossing. Common in suitable habitat.

BOWER'S SHRIKE-THRUSH

Photographed at the Curtain Fig Tree, Yungaburra, Queensland October 2015

674         BOWER'S SHRIKE-THRUSH            Colluricincla boweri

Australia           (516)

Found in rainforests in coastal ranges of ne. Q; lawns near same. 21 cm. Range: mostly above 400 m in highland rainforests of ne Q, from Mt Amos, near Cooktown, to Mt Spec near Townsville; inland to Herbert Ra., but to sea-level where habitat continuous. Common. 

RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH

                    RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH         Colluricincla rufogaster

Australia          ( 297)          

Was part of the Little Shrike-thrush complex. 17-19 cm. Found in rainforest (mainly lowland in ne. NSW and se. Q), watercourse vegetation, paperbarks, coastal open forest, mangroves, katana thickets. Ranges along coastal e. Aust. from c. Nambucca Heads-Coutts Crossing (NSW) to w. coast Cape York Peninsula; Mangroves of sw Gulf.

GREY SHRIKE-THRUSH

 163          GREY SHRIKE-THRUSH            Colluricincla harmonica

Australia     (163)

Widespread throughout Australia except pocket around Birdesville and pocket in central n. WA. Found in eucalyptus forests/woodlands, coastal scrubs, mallee, mulga, saltbush, watercourses, farms. 22-26 cm.

Subspecies strigata, photographed Tasmania February 2017