- Myiagra cyanoleuca
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.
Distribution
East coast of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Temperate forests and moist lowland forests.
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.
