Buff-sided Robin
| Buff-sided Robin | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Poecilodryas |
| Species: | P. cerviniventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Poecilodryas cerviniventris (Gould, 1858) | |
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The Buff-sided Robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) is a small bird in the Petroicidae family. It is endemic to northern Australia.
Description
The Robin has a green to brown back with a dark brown tail and wings streaked with white, creamy white chest, with pale orange around and beneath the wings. It is distinguished from the similar White-browed Robin, which it was formerly lumped, by its larger size, thicker and longer white superciliary stripe, duskier upper back, broad black face band, broader white remigial bar, rich tawny-rufous flanks, and white tipping on all retrices.[2]
Distribution and habitat
The Robin is found in the Kimberley region of north-west Western Australia and in the Top End of the Northern territory, where it inhabits woodlands and rainforest.
Breeding
Th Robin breeds from August to March. The two greenish-blue eggs, spotted with chestnut or purple, are laid in a small nest, made of twigs with paperbark and lichen, 1–10 m high in a tree.
Notes
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Poecilodryas cerviniventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Schodde & Mason, p.354.
References
- BirdLife International
- Pizzey, Graham; & Knight, Frank. A field guide to the Birds of Australia. Harper Collins.
- Schodde, R.; & Mason, I.J. (1999). The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-06456-7