Showing posts with label Chirruping Wedgebill. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

CHIRRUPING WEDGEBILL

Photographed on bush road to Chinaman's Creek, South Australia March 2015
536         CHIRRUPING WEDGEBILL           Psophodes cristatus

Australia        (377)

19-21 cm. found in arid country with low saltbush, bluebush, emu bush; acacia scrubs; ignum-canegrass on watercourses. range inland e. Aust. from near Port Augusta (SA) n. to c. Oodnadatta, w. of L. eyre, to SimpsonDesert in ne. SA-ese. NT; e. throughs. Flinders Ras. (SA), occasionally far nw Vic., widespread NSW w. of Darling R.; in Q. e. to Cunnamulla, n. to Charleville-lower Diamantia R.