A Field Guide to Australian Birds: Passerines |
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abdomen Atherton Tableland Babbler barred Bass Strait Bill black throat blackish-brown blue blue-grey Bower-bird breast and abdomen Cape York chestnut cinnamon colour crown Currawong dark brown dark grey Distinguished dull white dusky ear coverts ear patch eastern edges to wing eye-rings eyes face Fairy Warbler female Finch Flycatcher forehead forest and woodland Friar-bird Grass-wren Grey Fantail ground bird Guinea HABITAT head Immature Kangaroo Island legs lores Loud male mallee Mangrove nape nest nomadic Northern Australia Northern Territory olive-brown olive-green Open forest pale buff paler Pardalote pinkish-brown Quail-thrush Queensland rain forest RANGE reddish-brown Robin rufous rump Scrub-wren Sedentary Shrike-thrush Silvereye similar Sittella South Australia South Wales South-eastern Australia southern species spotted Spotted Pardalote streaked black Striated Striated Pardalote Tasmania Thornbill throat and breast tipped white Tree-creeper underparts undertail coverts upper breast VOICE Western Australia Whistler white eyebrows white throat White-browed white-naped honeyeater whitish wings and tail Wood-swallow Wren yellowish