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Cinnamon Quail-thrush

From Opus

Alternative names: Black-breasted Quail-thrush; Black-breasted Groundbird; Black-breasted Ground-thrush

Photo by Mat & Cathy Henbury Meteorite Craters NP, nr Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, July 2011
Photo by Mat & Cathy
Henbury Meteorite Craters NP, nr Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, July 2011
Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

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[edit] Identification

19 - 22cm (7.25 - 8.5 ins)
Male:

  • Face pattern like other Quail-thrushes: White eyebrow, black face, broad white streak down sides of black throat
  • Plain cinnamon-rufous upperparts
  • Buff white patch on upper breast, broad black band below.
  • Outer tail feathers black with white tip

Female:

  • Duller than male, face grey-brown with white eyebrow and white throat
  • Pale grey upper breast, no black

[edit] Distribution

Found in in east-central Australia: south-eastern Queensland to north-western New South Wales, central and north-eastern South Australia and south-eastern Northern Territory.
Locally common.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It formerly included Nullarbor Quail-thrush.

[edit] Habitat

Gibber plains, in sparse vegetation along (dry) watercourses.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on seeds, insects and spiders.
Foraging on the ground, walking slowly. Shy and elusive.
Breeding recorded in all months. The nest is a loose cup of grass, bark and sticks, placed in a depression in the ground or at the base of a tree, shrub or rock. Lays 2 eggs.
Resident with some local shifts depending on conditions, particularly alisteri.

[edit] References

  1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
  2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422
  3. Simpson, K and N Day. 1998. Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-4877-5

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