OLIVE WHISTLER

Photographed at Toolangi State Forest, Victoria November 2015

732               OLIVE WHISTLER             Pachycephala olivacea   

Australia         (575)

Found in alpine thickets, wetter rainforests/forests/woodlands; watercourse-vegetation; coastal tee-tree/paperbark scrubs, heaths; blackberries, gardens. More open habitats autumn and winter. In ne. NSW-se Queensland beech forest above c. 500 m. 20-22 cm. Range: coastal se Australia: from far se SA-sw Vic. patchily to Otway Ras. (Vic), n. coastal to se Q. in wetter forests/alpine woods of Gt. Dividing Ra, to about 1500 m; inland to c. Ballarat-Victorian Alps-Snowy-Brindabella Ra. (ACT)-Blue Mts (NSW). Dispersing to lowlands in autumn-winter.Uncommon, sedentary, altitudinal migrant.

Subspecies macphersoniana, at Gloucester Tops, NSW