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| Photographed on the Rainforest walk, Iluka, NSW, January 2024 |
1336 RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH Colluricincla rufogaster
AUSTRALIA 812
Formerly conspecific member of Little Shrike-thrush complex. Found in New Guinea and Australia. It is found in New Guinea and Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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| Photographed at Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024 |
1335 SWINHOE'S SNIPE Gallinago megala
AUSTRALIA 811
Also known as Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe. It breeds mainly in central and southern Siberia and Mongolia. The entire population migrates and spends the non-breeding season principally in eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, south-eastern China, South-East Asia and New Guinea. It has been recorded on migration in eastern China and occasionally in Japan. Records in Australia are mainly from the Top End of the Northern Territory and from north-western Western Australia. Breeding habitat: forest glades and meadows. Non-breeding habitat: shallow freshwater wetlands of various kinds including paddy fields and sewage farms, with bare mud or shallow water for feeding, with nearby vegetation cover.
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| Photographed near Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024. |
1334 NORTERN SHRIKETIT Falcunculus whitei
AUSTRALIA 810
It is found in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory. Endemic to Australia where they inhabit open eucalypt forest and woodland. One for three species of the genus Falcunculus.
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