BLACK-EARED CATBIRD

Photographed in Iron Range, Queensland, January 2021

1313                     BLACK-EARED CATBIRD                     Ailuroedus melanotis 

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS                       798

Species of bowerbird found in New Guinea and North Queensland. Was considered a subspecies of Spotted Catbird but now elevated to full species. 

 

SPOTTED CATBIRD

222           SPOTTED CATBIRD          Ailuroedus melanotis

Australia        (222)

Range in two spots in Northern Queensland, around Iron Range and from Cooktown to Townsville. 26- 30 cm. Found in mountain and lowland rain forests, gullies, paperbark, watercourse, gardens