Tag: Australian birds
Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)
Yellow-billed Kingfisher is a medium-size tree kingfisher. The tropical haunts of this least known of Australian kingfishers are so remote that few ornithologists have...
Trumpet Manucode (Manucodia keraudrenii)
Trumpet Manucode are aberrant birds of paradise that breed in monogamous pairs, lack patches of metallic color, and have, in males, a long coiled...
Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus)
Family: Known as the Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus), it is a species of bird native to Australia that belongs to the family Acanthizidae.
Behavior and...
Speckled Warbler (Sericornis sagittatus)
Family: The speckled warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus) belongs to the family Acanthizidae. In 1801, English physician and ornithologist John Latham described the speckled warbler for...
Spotted Bowerbird (Chlamydera maculate)
The spotted bowerbird (Chlamydera maculata) is a sedentary passerine found across much of eastern Australia's drier habitats. Despite the local abundance, it is believed...
Black Honeyeater (Certhionyx niger)
There are several species of honeyeaters in the meliphagid family, including the black honeyeater (Certhionyx niger).
Black honeyeaters measure between 100 and 120 millimeters in...