GILBERT'S WHISTLER

Photogrpahed at Terrick Terrick National Park, Victoria November 2015

729             GILBERT’S WHISTLER              Pachycephala inornata

Australia            (572)

Found in taller drier scrubs; woodlands with dense understorey; mallee-spinifex, cypress-pine, mulga, belar, buloke, coastal tee-tree; black box/lignum, broom honey myrtle. 19-20 cm. Range: from Warrumbungles NP-Cowra-Tocumwal (NSW), s to upper Murray R (Vic)- Chiltern-Nagambie (casual You Yangs), w to Wimmeraand mallee areas of nw Vic; in SA Murray mallee-flinders Ras to n Yorke Pen-Eyre., w. to Gawler Ras-Gt Victoria Desert; in s WA, through s W. Deserts, w and n to Menzies-Paynes Find-Yalgoo, s.to c. Northam-Narrogin-Albany. Uncommon. Sedentary or nomadic.