Varied Triller
Lalage leucomela· 鹃鵙科(3 photos)
Varied Triller
17.5 cm. Note white eyebrow, black eyeline, bold white wingbars, finely barred underparts, yellow-buff belly/undertail-coverts. Female: greyer; barred. Immature: streaked/scalloped. Singles, pairs, trios: forages quietly in foliage; noticed by call.
- Voice
- rolling 'brreeer', 4-8+ times, swelling, falling away; taken up by others.
- Habitat
- rainforests, monsoon/vine forests, eucalypt forests/woodlands, paperbarks, watercourses, lantana, gardens.
- Breeding
- Aug.-April.
- Nest
- shallow cup of twigs, rootlets, grass, spiders' web; on horizontal branch/fork, 1-20 m.
- Eggs
- 1; large, pale greenish, freckled red-brown.
- Range & Status
- from n. Kimberley (WA) to Top End (NT); C. York Pen. (Q) to ne. NSW, casual s. to Kuringai Chase NP; mostly below 850 m. Uncommon in s. Sedentary. Also PNG, Bismarck Arch.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Lalage leucomela macrura 2. Lalage leucomela rufiventris 3. Lalage leucomela yorki 4. Lalage leucomela leucomela
