PALE YELLOW ROBIN

225            PALE-YELLOW ROBIN               Tregellasia capitol

Australia       (225)

Found in tropical, sub-tropical rainforests, tangles of lawyer-vine, and dense creekside vegetation. Range down e. coast of mainland from Cooktown to Townsville and in to Atherton, and from Frazer Island down to Newcastle and inland to Walcha. 13 cm.

MACLEAY'S HONEYEATER

224            MACLEAY'S HONEYEATER               Xanthotis macleayana

Australia             (224)

20 cm. Found in rainforest margins, wartercourses, paperbarks, blossoming eucalypt forests, woodlands, orchard, and gardens. Range from Cooktown to Townsville, lowland to highland rain forests.

VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD

223            VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD         Ptilotis victoriae

Australia           (223)

23-25 cm. Ranges across small area of rainforests in ne Queensland, from near Cooktown to near Townsville. Lives in rainforests in mountains and foothills, occasionally open woodlands.

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

BROWN THORNBILL

221             BROWN THORNBILL         Acanthiza pusilla

Australia         (221)

Both pale and dark variants. 10 cm. Range down e. coast and highlands from Prosepine (Q) to Adelaide (SA) and on Tasmania. Found in under storey in rain forests, eucalyptus, woodlands, scrub, ware course, bracken, dune-vegetation, mangroves, parks and gardens.

Subspecies diemenensis, photographed east coast of Tasmania, February 2017

HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOO

Photographed at Marmor, Queensland, August 2014

220            HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOO            Chrysococcyx basalis

Australia        (220)

Range all over Australia. 15-17 cm.  Found in woodlands, mallee, salt marsh, mulga, saltbush and golf courses.

WHITE-THROATED GERYGONE

219            WHITE-THROATED GERYGONE            Gerygone olivacea

Australia        (219)

Also known as the Bush or Native Canary. 10-11.5 cm. Range across n. and e. Australian mainland. Found in open forest/woodlands, lightly timbered hills, scrub and water courses.

SATIN FLYCATCHER

218        SATIN FLYCATCHER           Myiagra cyanoleuca

Australia         (218)

Range down e. coast and highlands and in Tasmania. Found in heavily vegetated gullies in forests,woodlands, coastal forests and woodlands, open country. 15-17 cm.

DUSKY MOORHEN

217     DUSKY MOORHEN              Gallinula tenebrosa

Australia         (217)

Also known as Waterhen. 35-40 cm. Range sw WA, Tasmania and e. third of mainland except Cape York. Found in well-vegetated wetlands, town lakes, parks, farm dams, irrigation storage, drains, rivers, wetlands and mangroves.

CATTLE EGRET

216              CATTLE EGRET         Ardea ibis

Australia          (216)

48-53 cm, span c. 90 cm.  Range from the Kimberley to coastal se. and around to Adelaide, also in sw WA and Tasmania. Originally came to NT from Indonesia in 1940s. Found in stock paddocks, pastures, croplands, wetlands, tips and drain ways.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

215            INTERMEDIATE EGRET               Ardea intermedia

Australia         (215)

Also known as Plumed Egret. 56-70 cm. Range across northern third of mainland and e. half of mainland and in Tasmania. Found in freshwater wetlands, pastures and crop land, idal mudflats and floodplains.

Note: two different subspecies. If split bird from Cocos Island is nominate species. Bird from Australia will become Plumed Egret.   NOTE: now split by IOC 23 September 2023. Bird below is now a separate species. 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023

GREAT EGRET

214      GREAT EGRET       Ardea alba

Australia     (214)

Also known as Large or White Egret, or Whit Crane. 76 cm -1 m, span c. 1.5 m. Ranges all over Australia except driest e. WA, nw SA and sw NT. Found in shallow riverbeds, estuaries, tidal mudflats, wetlands, sewerage ponds and irrigation areas.

OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE

Photographed at Gold creek reservoir, near Brisbane, August 201

213            OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE            Oriolus sagittatus

Australia         (213)

Range from Kimberley across the top of Australia and down e. coast to tip of SA, ranges inland to cover most of Q, NSW and Vic., small pocket around Adelaide. Found in rain forests, eucalyptus forests and woodlands, timber on watercourses, mallee and gardens. 26-28 cm