Monday, August 31, 2015

LITTLE GRASSBIRD


648            LITTLE GRASSBIRD                Megalurus gramineus

Australia          (490)

Found in dense wetland vegetation: cumbungi, reeds, rushes, canegrass, lignum, vegetation on bore-drains,; tidal-marshes, salt-lakes; mangroves. 13-15 cm. Range: e. and sw. Aust., Bass Strait islands, Tas., w. to Eyre Pen. (SA), Gulf Coast (Q). Patchy inland pockets of suitable habitats to Kununurra (n. WA). Locally common.




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