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Photo by Neil Fifer

Myiagra inquieta

[edit] Identification

20cm. Glossy dark blue crown, grey back, white underparts.

[edit] Distribution

Australia and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Open forests and woodlands and farmland.

[edit] Behaviour

Its diet includes insects, spiders and centipedes.

Both sexes build a cup-shaped nest from shredded bark and grasses, matted and bound with spiderswebs. It is lined with soft bark, grasses, hair or feathers and decorated with lichen, strips of bark or spiders' egg sacs. Both parents incubate the eggs and rear the young.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID