Sunday, October 11, 2015

GREY WHISTLER

Photographed at Iron Range, Queensland October 2015
709         GREY WHISTLER           Pachycephala simplex

Australia      (551)

Also known as Brown Whistler. Found in rainforests, monsoon forests, vine and coastal scrubs, mangroves, paperbarks. Range: race peninsula: from Cape York (Q) s. to c. Ingham on e. coast; up to 900 m in mountain rainforests. Nominate race: Top End (NT), coastal islands; from c. Port Keats e. to Groote Eylandt. Uncommon, Sedentary; seasonal nomadic.

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