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

GREEN CATBIRD

Photographed at Mount Glorious, Queensland, August, 2014.

211            GREEN CATBIRD          Ailuroedus crassirostris

Australia       (211)

24-32 cm. Often heard in rainforests, making the noise of a cat or a baby crying. ranges down the e. coast and Great Divide from s. of Gladstone, Queensland to s. of Narooma, NSW. Found in mountain and lowland rain forests, densely forested gullies, paperbark and other watercourses.