YELLOW CHAT

Subspecies macgregori, Photographed at Marmor, Queensland March 2016

 764          YELLOW CHAT             Epthianura crocea

AUSTRALIA         (608)

Found in bullrushes, pencil rush, sedges, swamp canegrass, lignum on seasonal wetlands, artesian bore dams, saltbush, bluebush on plains. 10-11.5 cm. Range: from Roebuck Plains (WA) - Barkly Tablelands (NT) - Gulf lowlands (Q) - e. to c. hughenden (Q); Pocket of sub-species at Marmor (Q). Rare, sedentary, nomadic.

Note: There are currently three subspecies of Yellow Chat recognised in Australia: (1) Epithianura crocea crocea, found in Kimberley to the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Lake Eyre Basin; (2) Epithianura crocea tunneyi: restricted to small area in floodplains from Adelaide River to East Alligator River; (3) Epthianura crocea macgregori: Also known as the Capricorn yellow chat, occurs in coastal region of central Queensland (Considered critically endangered).

Subspecies crocea photographed on Roebuck Plains, WA, September 2016

ORANGE CHAT

Photographed near Cue, Western Australia April 2015

570          ORANGE CHAT            Epthianura aurifrons

Australia           (413)

10-11.5 cm. Found in sparse grasslands, gibber; saltbush, bluebush, samphire, salt lakes. Ranges across inland Aust., sparsely to w. and s. coast, WA, e. to Coorong (SA).

CRIMSON CHAT

Photographed near Cue, Western Australia April 2015

 567           CRIMSON CHAT          Epthianura tricolor

Australia         (410)

10-12 cm. Found in open woodlands, plains, scrubs, grasslands. Range inland Aust. to coastal s. in WA-SA. Nomadic.

MOCKING CLIFF CHAT

389           MOCKING CLIFF CHAT             Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris

South Africa           (82)

22 cm. Range down eastern half of Southern Africa. Found in dry savannah, resident on cliffs and boulder strewn hillsides and ravines, forages on the ground.

RED-CAPPED ORANGE-CHAT

388          RED-CAPPED ROBIN-CHAT             Cossypha natalensis

South Africa           (81)

Range along east coast of Southern Africa, and pockets in the north of Southern Africa. Found in thickets, forests and dense woodlands. 17 cm.

WHITE-FRONTED CHAT

Photographed at Homebush Bay in Sydney. One of five, unfortunately all males.

86       WHITE-FRONTED CHAT     Epthianura albifrons

Australia      (86)

Ranges across the southern half of Australia. Found in open damp ground, fence-lines, grass clumps, heaths, salt marshes, dunes, mangroves. 11-13 cm.