Crested Shrike-tit
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| Falcunculus frontatus Latham, 1802 |
The Crested Shrike-tit, Falcunculus frontatus occurs and endemic to Australia, with three subspecies inhabiting open eucalypt forest and woodland in the southwest (F. f. leucogaster), north (F. f. whitei) and east (F. f. frontatus). It has a parrot-like bill, used for distinctive bark-stripping behaviour, which gains it access to invertebrates.
Males are larger than females in wing length, weight, and bill-size (Noske 2003). Males have black throats, while females have olive green.
Recent work with nuclear gene sequencing suggests that the Shrike-tits and Wattled Ploughbill may require their own family, Falcunculidae (Dickinson 2003).
The Crested Shrike-tit is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Falcunculus frontatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd Ed. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Schodde, R. and I. J. Mason. 1999. Directory of Australian Birds. Passerines: i-x, 1-851. CSIRO Publishing, Canberra.
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