Showing posts with label Chiming Wedgebill. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

CHIMING WEDGEBILL

Photographed near Cue, Western Australia April 2015
566          CHIMING WEDGEBILL              Psophodes nigrogularis

Australia        (409)

Extremely shy. 19-22 cm. Found in acacia scrubs on stoney country; mallee-spinifex; broom bush on sandhills. Ranges across w. interior Aust.: from Toomba Ras.-Glenormiston-Urandangi (far w. Q), across s. NT, n. to Tanami; to w. coast (WA) from c. Onslow s. to Murchison R; s. inland to c. Payne's Find-Leonora, e. through Gt Victorian Desert to Tarcoola-Coober Pedy (SA).