Birds of Australia: A Summary of Information |
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arboreal areas Australia band barred bill black birds blackish blackish-brown blotched blue-grey Bowerbird breast and belly BREEDING Brown Thornbill buffy-white bushes centre chestnut cinnamon cinnamon brown coastal colour crown dark grey darker DESCRIPTION Distribution Dotterel dull white edged endemic species eyes brown eyes dark brown face fairly common female flanks flight feathers flocks Flycatcher FOOD forehead foreneck forest genus Gould grass green gregarious grey-brown Guinea HABITAT HABITS head Honeyeater insects islands legs black legs dark loud mainly male mallee mangroves mottled nape nests in trees non-breeding visitor paler Parrot Petrel plumage RECOGNITION reddish-brown rufous rump savanna sedentary and nomadic semispecies Sexes alike shades shoulders Silvereye similar solitary sometimes species extending speckled STATUS superspecies tail feathers Tasmania TAXONOMY terrestrial tinged underparts underparts white upper tail coverts upperparts usually variable VARIATION vegetation VOICE Western Australia white eggs white streak whitish woodlands Wren yellow