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 LC    Yellow Chat* Id (Atlas): 451
    Epthianura crocea Endemic

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow Chat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Yellow-breasted Nun, Yellow-breasted Bush-chat

Family
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Castelnau & Ramsay, 1877

Derivation
Ep-thi'-an-u-ra - Gk, pthianas, decreasing, wasting; Gk, oura, tail (referring to the shortness of the tail): cro'-ce-a - L., croceus, yellow

Abundance (Guide)
R - UC

Rare, sedentary, nomadic.

Habitat
Marshy swamps, reeds around wet areas, such as bore drains.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

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Isloated populations across northern Australia from about the Fitzroy River, WA east to western Queensland.
 
Rarity Status
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Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Habitat degradation due to invasion of the weed Mimosa pigra which renders the habitat unsuitable.

Possibly endangered.

See also EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna for subspecies macgregori (Dawson, Qld) and EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna for subspecies tunneyi (Alligator Rivers, NT).

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually in pairs.

Food
Insects.

Voice
A piping, 'te-tsu-te'. Strident churring. A sparrow-like 'chirp'.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

 
Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) [XC170146]
     by Pieter de Groot Boersma from Roebuck, Western Australia, Australia (song)

 
Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) [XC287803]
     by Phil Gregory from Lake Argyle, Western Australia, Australia (call, voices)

Breeding Season (Guide)
Mainly November - January.

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Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of grass and fine rootlets, in a low bush or tall grass, near water.

Eggs (Guide)
3; white with blotches of olive-brown and light red-brown or minute spots of black-end; oval; about 17 x 13 mm.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 11 - 12 days. Fed by both parents.

Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • crocea Castelnau & Ramsay, 1877   -  Interior northern Australia from the Kimberley Divide and Cambridge Gulf, east to south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage and south to Eromanga - Lake Eyre Basin of Queensland and South Australia.
  • tunneyi Mathews, 1912   -  Coastal plains of western Arnhem Land, NT.
  • macgregori ! Keast, 1958   -  Lower Dawson - Mackenzie Basin, central-eastern Qld (possibly extinct).


Similar Species
Male with male Orange Chat (Epthianura aurifrons) which has a black face, lacks the black crescent breast band, has a red-brown eye and female with female, the females being hard to distinguish in the field, but having more brown upperparts.

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References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9


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JPG files for Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) - 10 filesMP3 files for Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) - 1 files


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