Pale-yellow Robin
Tregellasia capito· 鸲鹟科(3 photos)
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Pale-yellow Robin
13 cm. Whitish grey from above bill to below eye; legs yellowish. Race nana: lores pale orange-buff. Quieter than Eastern: less tail cocking/wing flirting. Tame; hangs sideways on low prickly vines. Seldom leaves gloom of habitat.
- Similar Species
- Eastern Yellow Robin, race chrysorrhoa. White-faced Robin.
- Voice
- single/double squeak like Rufous Fantail; harder, peevish notes; soft churring trill; harsh, scolding 'scairr'.
- Habitat
- tropical, subtropical rainforests; tangles of lawyer vine; dense creekside vegetation.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Dec. (NSW-Q); July-Dec. (ne. Q).
- Nest
- neat cup of grass, rootlets, spiders' web, decorated with moss, bark, lichen, leaves; at junction of stem/leaves of lawyer vine, or fork in low sapling, to 1-6 m.
- Eggs
- 2; green-white with yellowish, brown, chestnut markings.
- Range & Status
- nominate race: lowland rainforests, on and coastward of Divide, from c. Dungog (NSW), inland to Walcha-Tenterfield, n. to Conondale Ra.-Cooloola NP-Byfield (Q); inland to c. Warwick; Fraser and other coastal islands (Q). Race nana: mostly highland rainforests up to 1500 m, from Paluma, near Townsville (Q), to near Cooktown, inland on Atherton Tableland and other ranges. Common. Sedentary.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Tregellasia capito nana 2. Tregellasia capito capito
