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[[Image:White-winged Triller Lalage sueurii Holmes Jungle 1217c 22-5-08.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|tcollins|tcollins}}<br />Darwin, [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]], May 2008]] | [[Image:White-winged Triller Lalage sueurii Holmes Jungle 1217c 22-5-08.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|tcollins|tcollins}}<br />Darwin, [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]], May 2008]] | ||
| − | + | [[Image:761 Triller, White-winged 03j (non-breeding) Lalage tricolor AUSTRALIA.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Non-breeding male<br />Photo by {{user|peterday|peterday}}<br />Kakadu, [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]], May 2015]] | |
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
Open woodlands and forest, tree-lined waterways in semi-arid regions and the nearby scrub. | Open woodlands and forest, tree-lined waterways in semi-arid regions and the nearby scrub. | ||
Revision as of 08:02, 30 June 2015
- Lalage tricolor
Identification
Short slender bill, long wings, long tail with a rounded tip. Breeding male - black above,head and body and wing coverts, and white below, on the lower face, body and under-wings, wide white shoulder bar. Non-breeding males - brown, light underparts, faint pale brow and dark line through the eye. Female is similar, though the male has a greyer rump. All birds have a netted pattern on the wings - black and white on the breeding male and dark brown to light brown in the non-breeding male and the female.
Distribution
Australia and southern New Guinea.
Taxonomy
White-winged Triller and White-shouldered Triller are considered conspecific (as White-winged Triller L. sueurii) by Boles and Cristidis, Birds Australia and Clements (2010). Dickinson (2003) and Gill and Donsker (2010) (and Opus) recognise two separate species.
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Habitat
Open woodlands and forest, tree-lined waterways in semi-arid regions and the nearby scrub.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects, fruit, seeds and occasionally nectar.
They build small cup nests of bark, grasses and fine material, bound with spiders' web. They sometimes use the empty nests of other birds, favouring the mud nests of Magpie-larks. Both parents incubate and care for the young.
Vocalisation
<flashmp3>Wwtr_2006.mp3</flashmp3>
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