Mangrove Robin (Peneothello pulverulenta) [XC692342]
by James Lambert from Charles Darwin University, Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia (song)
Mangrove Robin (Peneothello pulverulenta) [XC329668]
by Marc Anderson from Mangrove Boardwalk, Cairns Airport, Queensland, Australia (call)
Nest
Cup-shaped, compact, composed of strips of bark bound with cobweb, lined with grass and decorated on the outside with bark fragments, usually in the fork of a mangrove, up to 4 meters above the water.
Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3; lustrous, pale olive-brown, green or yellow-green, with blotches and spots of various reds and browns, with underlying slate-grey, usually forming a zone at the larger end; rounded-oval; about 19 x 15 mm. Incubation: probably 14 - 16 days; by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Probably fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
pulverulenta (Bonaparte, 1850) - Southern New Guinea from near East Cape to Utanata River, also Gellvink Bay and Humboldt Bay east to middle Sepik.
cinereiceps (Hartert, 1905) - Coastal central-western to north-western WA, from Exmouth Gulf, north-east to Napier Broome Bay and Cambridge Gulf, north-eastern Kimberley Divide, but excluding Eighty Mile Beach.
alligator (Mathews, 1912) - Coastal NT, from Victoria River, east to south-western Gulf of Carpentaria, and including Tiwi Island and Groote Eylandt.
leucura (Gould, 1869) - Coastal northern Qld, from south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria, north to islands of Torres Strait, then south-east to Mackay, and also Aru Island.
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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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