Grey Shrike-thrush Male Adult White Lores | South Australian Golden Whistler Female, front | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||
Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
Family: | Whistler (Pachycephalidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica ssp harmonica) | ||||
This Photo: | Male Adult Grey Lores | ||||
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli & David Mules for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: This is exactly the same bird as the previous photo, taken within 60 seconds. But suddenly with a tilt of the head, the lores (area between the eye and the beak) is not as white. General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere What a song. Pretty, but plain-coloured (grey shades) Juveniles: rufous eye + breast markings. Males have a white patch between the eyes and the beak (ie the lores). But this patch isn't easy to see, depending on lighting. So seeing a white lores means you have a male, while not seeing a white lores doesn't guarantee you have a female. The female has a white eye ring. Both genders sing, not just the male. | |||||
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