Tag: Australian birds
Noisy Pitta (Pitta versicolor)
Family: A noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor) belongs to the family Pittidae.
Habitat: Pittas, or Jewel-Thrushes, are some of the world's brightest-colored birds. Noisy Pittas are...
Red-kneed Dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus)
Habitats: The Red-kneed Dotterels (Erythrogonys cinctus) live on the inundated muds of temporary flood lands inland. They are nomadic, loosely gregarious, and aquatic waders....
Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre)
Habitat: Cicadabirds (Edolisoma tenuirostre) utter sporadic bursts throughout the day only when they advertise or signal their territory during breeding season. Often several hundred...
Southern Scrub-robin (Drymodes brunneopygia)
Habitat: A ground bird of heathier Mallee, the Southern Scrub-robin (Drymodes brunneopygia) is thrush-like in form and behavior. In fact, some recent classifications have...
Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)
Little wattlebirds (Anthochaera chrysoptera) belong to the Meliphagidae family of honeyeaters. Little Wattlebirds have replaced Brush Wattlebirds in southwestern Australia; they have long been...
White-breasted Whistler – Nature’s Melodic Maestro
Family: The white-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides) belongs to the family Pachycephalidae in the order Passeriformes.
Habitat: The White-breasted Whistler is an imposing whistler and one...