Chestnut Quail-thrush: Male, profile

Chestnut Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castanotum)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Perching Birds (Passeriformes)

Family:

Quail-thrush (Psophodidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Chestnut Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castanotum)

This Photo:

🔍Male, profile🔎

Other name:

Chestnut Backed Quail-thrush

Thank you Indra Bone, John Oliver & Owen Lishmund for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Runs a lot. Easily confused with babbler, but much prettier when it stops.
Females have a blue-grey breast. In the males, the grey is replaced with a solid black, which contrasts with the white. White under, dark chestnut back.
A family regularly visits while we take a coffee break. They no longer seem too bothered by our presence.

This species is protected and classed as

RA (Rare)

under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act

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