Showing posts with label Philemon argenticeps. Show all posts
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Friday, May 22, 2015

FRIARBIRD

Photographed at Bell Gorge, Kimberley, Western Australia, May 2015
608       SILVER-CROWNED FRIARBIRD            Philemon argenticeps

Australia         (451)

27-32 cm. Found in tropical open forests, woodlands, watercourses, mangroves, gardens, towns. Range: coastal n. Aust. from Derby (WA), e. through Kimberley and Top End (NT), e. and s. to Larrimah-Mallapunyah, Groote Eylandt; in Q, s. to Cloncurry-Flinders R. on Gulf coast, and from C. Yorke-Weipa s. on e. coast to c. Townsville-Magnetic I; Common, blossom nomad.