Hall's Babbler

Pomatostomus halli· 弯嘴鹛科(2 photos)

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Species Profile

IOC World Bird List

23-25 cm. Like a sooty brown White-browed Babbler with shorter white bib; cut off more abruptly on mid-breast by dark underparts.

Voice: squeaky chatterings; frequent liquid note; calls more like Grey-crowned than White-browed; lacks 'yahoo' of former and madder staccato outbursts of latter.
Habitat: tall mulga and other acacia scrubs; cypress pines; open eucalypt woodlands; spinifex associations.
Breeding: June-Oct.
Nest: smaller, neater than Grey-crowned.
Eggs: 1-2; cream-brown, glossy, with black hairlike scribbles.
Range & Status: large range in w. Q-far w. NSW; n. to Winton-Boulia (Q); w. at least to McGregor and Grey Ras.; e. to c. Longreach-Idalia NP-Cunnamulla; s. to c. Barrier Ra.-Mootwingee-Brewarrina (NSW). Common in suitable habitat. Sedentary; locally nomadic.