Crested Bellbird
英文名：Crested Bellbird（学名：Oreoica gutturalis），是雀形目冠钟鹟科的鸟类。20–23厘米。独特的内陆鸣禽。雄鸟：前额/喉部白色，由一条自纤细可竖立的黑色羽冠延伸至宽阔黑色胸斑的黑带包围；头部其余部分灰色；眼橙红色；上体灰褐色；腰部微染栗色；下体近白；尾下覆羽泛皮黄色。雌鸟及幼鸟：较偏褐色：无胸斑；眼偏黄色。单只、成对、家族小群、小群体：在地面、树桩、低矮树枝上觅食；轻快跳跃。飞行有力呈波浪状：尾端无白色。鸣叫时高高停歇于裸露枯枝上，左右转头，因而带有“口技腹语”般的音效。
Crested Bellbird
20-23 cm. Distinctive inland vocalist. Male: forehead/throat white, bordered by black band from slender erectile black crest to broad black breast-patch; rest of head grey; eye orange-red; upperparts grey-brown; rump tinged chestnut; underparts whitish; undertail-coverts buffish. Female and immature: browner: no breast-patch; eye yellowish. Singles, pairs, family parties, small companies: forages on ground, stumps, low branches; hops briskly. Flight strong, undulating: lacks white tail tips. Calling, perches high, on exposed dead branch, turning left and right, hence 'ventriloquial' quality.
- Similar Species
- Wedgebills, Western Whipbird.
- Voice
- celebrated, unusual, liquid; starts softly, intensifies: 'did-did-did, didee-dit', 'pan-pan, panella', or mellow 'plunk plunk' or 'plunka-plunka-plunka', last syllable dropping in liquid plonk or like mellow cow-bell; from distance, only this may be heard. Contact-call: thin 'seep', like quail-thrush. Alarm-call: harsh 'chuck-a-chuck-chuck'.
- Habitat
- arid scrublands - mulga, other acacias; saltbush, belar, mallee/spinifex; eucalypt woodlands.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Dec., or after rain.
- Nest
- untidy cup of bark strips, leaves, twigs; lined with grass, rootlets; 1-3 m high on stump, fork of shrub, tree. Places immobilised live caterpillars around rim.
- Eggs
- 3-4; white, blotched dark brown, grey.
- Range & Status
- widespread mainland Aust., mostly w. of Gt Divide and s. of tropical coastal n. Aust. Extends to w. coast s. of NW Cape (WA); s. coast of WA/SA, e. to se. SA; mostly absent from far sw. WA, s. coastal and e. Vic.; coastal e. NSW-e. Q. Sedentary; locally nomadic.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Oreoica gutturalis gutturalis 2. Oreoica gutturalis pallescens
