LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE

Photographed on the Daintree River, near Daintree Village October 2015

717             LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE         Gerygone magnirostris

Australia       (559)

Also known as Floodbird and Large-billed Warbler. 10.5-11.5 cm. Found in rainforests, paperbarks on streams; eucalyptus woodlands, mangroves, gardens. Range: coastal n. Aust., and islands, from McKay (Q) to w.Kimberley (WA). Common, sedentary.

Large-billed Gerygone nest

CHANNEL-BILLED CUCKOO

112    CHANNEL-BILLED CUCKOO        Scythrops novaehollandiae

Australia    (112)

Also known as Flood, Rain, or Stormbird, Fig Hawk or Hornbill. A summer breeding visitor from Indonesia and PNG. Ranges across the top of Australia down the east coast to Sydney., inland covering half Queensland and NT. Found rain forests, woodlands, fruiting trees in farmland.