CHESTNUT-BREASTED CUCKOO

Photographed at Rainforest camping area, Iron Range, Queensland October 2015

710             CHESTNUT-BREASTED CUCKOO             Cacomantis castaneiventris

Australia        (552)

23-25 cm. Found in rainforest, monsoon forest, scrub on watercourses, mangroves. Range: e. Cape York Pen. (Q), from Cape York s. to Bloomfield R. (Cooktown-Mosman), inland to McIlwaith Ra. Uncommon, sedentary, possibly part-migrant to PNG where it is also resident.

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.

TRUMPET MADUCODE

Photographed near Lockhart River, Queensland October 2015

708         TRUMPET MANUCODE            Manucodia keraudrenii

Australia          (550)

Also known as Trumpetbird. 28-32 cm. Found in rainforests, vine-scrubs, eucalypt forest/woodland. Range: n. Cape York Pen. (Q): from C. York and coastal islands s. to Weipa on w. coast and McIlwaith Ra.-Rocky R. on e. coast. Fairly common, Sedentary.

DOUBLE-EYED FIG-PARROT

Photographed near Gordon's Creek crossing, Iron Range, Queensland October 2015

707           DOUBLE-EYED FIG-PARROT             Cyclopsitta diophthalma

Australia           (549)

Three races of Double-eyed Fig-parrots in Australia, separated geographically. Found in rainforests; adjacent eucalyptus woodlands and coastal scrubs; timber on watercourses, paperbark woodlands; occasionally visits figs, loquats and other fruit trees in gardens and plantations. 13-16 cm. Range: race marshalli:lowland rainforest on ne Cape York Pen. (Q), in vicinity of Lockhart and Claudie Rs. and probably beyond. Race macleayana: highlands and lowland rainforests from Cooktown s to Eungella NP, near MacKay (Q). Race coxeni: highland, and sparse remnant lowland, rainforests on e of Gt Divide, from Gladstone (Q) to c. Hastings R. (NSW). Sedentary, locally nomadic. Northern races still moderately common. Race coxeni declined seriously and now rare and endangered.

Male, Double-eyed Fig-parrot

race: macleayana, female, photographed near Cairns, Queensland October 2015

race: macleayana, male, photographed near Cairns, Queensland October 2015