Chestnut Quail-thrush
Cinclosoma castanotum· 鹑鸫科(1 photos)
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Chestnut Quail-thrush
Two species recently separated:
Cinclosoma castanotum.
Cinclosoma clarum.
20-26cm. Plain olive-brown above, lower back/rump deep chestnut. Male: eyebrow, throat patch white; throat/breast glossy black. Female and immature: eyebrow, throat mark yellow-buff;throat/breast grey, cut off sharply by white underparts. Copperback Quail-thrush: brighter chestnut on back/rump. Pairs, family parties: walks quietly, unless startled.
- Other name
- Chestnut-backed Quail-thrush.
- Voice
- high-pitched 'seep'; song soft, tremulous, ventriloquial; at dawn from song-perch.
- Habitat
- mallee-spinifex; mulga, cypress pine, with shrub layer; desert eucalypt woodlands; saltbush, desert-heaths, coastal tea-tree.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Nov., or after rains.
- Nest
- deep cup of bark strips, sticks; by mallee-trunk, fallen branch, low bush; grass tuft.
- Eggs
- 2 (3); white, spotted, blotched brown.
- Range & Status
- Chestnut Quail-thrush: Occurs east of Adelaide, SA.; from Round Hill NR (NSW), s. to Cocoparra NP, n. to c. Roto; mallee areas of sw. NSW-nw. Vic., s. to ne. Little Desert NP; Copperback Quail-thrush: Occurs west of Adelaide, SA.; Bight coast and Nullarbor Plain; sw. NT to c. 90 km n. of Alice Springs-Kintore Ras.; across s. WA, coastally n. to c. Shark Bay; absent wetter sw. WA, but to s. coast. Patchy. Sedentary. Locally nomadic.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Cinclosoma castanotum
