SPINIFEXBIRD

Photographed near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, May 2015

618             SPINIFEXBIRD             Eremiornis carteri

Australia          (461)

Found in spinifex clumps, dense grasses, near creek beds, lower slopes; mostly in hilly country above 300 m. Range: patchy across arid inland Aust. and WA, from c. Winton-Jundah, n. to Mt Isa (Q)-Barkly Tableland-upper Victoria R. (NT) and upper Fitzroy R. (WA); to w. coast from Eighty Mile Beach s. to c. Carnarvon and Dampier and Montebello Is., Groups;thence inland to Minilya R.(WA) and to James, Kritchauf and Mt. Sunday Ras (NT) and Indulkana Ra. (far n. SA). 14-16 cm.

Photographed near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory May 2016