LESSER YELLOWNAPE

Subspecies wellsi, March 2017

1079               LESSER YELLOWNAPE               Picus chlorophus

SRI LANKA                 83

Found in forests and wooded areas. 27 cm. Uncommon breeding resident from wet lowlands and adjoining drier areas up to mid hills; occasionally ascends higher.

BLACK-TAILED TREECREEPER

Photographed on Gibb River Road, Kimberley, Western Australia, May 2015

615         BLACK-TAILED TREECREEPER            Climacteris melanura

Australia        (458)

The largest and darkest of the Treecreepers. 17-20 cm. Found in open eucalypt forest, grassy woodlands and open scrub in hilly, breakaway country and lowlands; in nw Aust., large timber, red river gums on watercourses, dead trees. Range: from Carnarvon (WA), through Hamersley and Kimberley regions into NT, s. to Banka Banka-Alexandria; in nw. Q., e. to lower Leichhardt R.-Cloncurry. Isolated small, pale race wellsi in Pilbara region of WA.