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Photo by Tom Tarrant
Photo taken: Samsonvale, SE Qld, Australia.

Myiagra cyanoleuca

[edit] Identification

Blue-black above, blue-black chest and white below; females duskier blue-black above, orange-red chin, throat and breast, and white underparts and pale-edged wing and tail feathers. Young birds are dark brown-grey above, with pale streaks and buff edges to the wing feathers, and a mottled brown-orange throat and chest.

[edit] Distribution

East coast of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Temperate forests and moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

Its nest is broad-based and cup-shaped made of shredded bark and grass, coated with spider webs and decorated with lichen, placed on a bare, horizontal branch, with overhanging foliage, about 3 m - 25 m above the ground. Both sexes build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young. Nests may be parasitised.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID