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Sundown, Queensland, Australia

Climacteris picumnus

[edit] Identification

• Grey brown
• Lower breast and belly streaked black
• Black barred undertail
• Pale face
• Dark eyeline
• Dark crown
  

Male: black and white streaks in upper breast
Female: rufous and white streaks

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Australia: found in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies:

• C. p. melanotus:

• North-eastern Queensland (southern Cape York Peninsula)

• C. p. picumnus:

• Central and eastern Queensland to central Victoria and eastern South Australia

• C. p. victoriae:

• South-eastern South Australia (south-eastern Queensland through eastern New South Wales to south-western Victoria)

[edit] Habitat

Drier open forest and woodland clearings, riverine woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes ants, insects, invertebrates, some nectar and sap.

[edit] Breeding

Both sexes build the nest in a tree hollow from grasses. The female incubates the eggs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Birds in Backyards
3. Wikipedia
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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