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 LC    Sandstone Shrike-thrush* Id (Atlas): 411
    Colluricincla woodwardi Endemic

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Sandstone Shrike-thrush, Brown-breasted Shrike-thrush, Brown-breasted Thrush, Red-bellied Shrike-thrush, Red-bellied Thrush, Woodward's Shrike-thrush, Woodward's Thrush, Cliff Thrush, Rock Thrush, Sandstone Thrush, Sandstone Shrikethrush

Family
Pachycephalidae (Whistlers)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartert, 1905

Derivation
Coll-u-ri-cinc'-la - Gk, collurion, shrike; Gk, cinclos, bird (thrush): woodwardi - B.H. Woodward ( - 1916), sometime director of the Perth Museum, WA

Abundance (Guide)
MC

Common within specific habitat. Sedentary.

Habitat
Sandstone ridges, hills and outcrops, with cliffs and boulders. Also in patches of rainforest on escarpments.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

Image of Range of Sandstone Shrike-thrush
Northern Western Australia (eastern from Kimberley), northern Northern Territory and extreme north-western Queensland.
 
North-western Australia and Northern Territory, from Napier Broome Bay to the McArthur River.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Probably secure.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually singly or in twos. Occasionally in groups of three.

Food
Mainly insects.

Voice
Clear, strong notes, amplified by surrounding rocks and cliffs. Contact call, a strident 'peter'.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

 
Sandstone Shrikethrush (Colluricincla woodwardi) [XC815813]
     by nick talbot from Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia (song)

 
Sandstone Shrikethrush (Colluricincla woodwardi) [XC815815]
     by James Lambert from Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia (song, wind)

Breeding Season (Guide)
October - January.

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Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of roots of spinifex, placed in crevices of cliffs.

Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3; pearly white with well-defined brown-black, brown and slate-grey spots, mostly large and sparingly distributed, mainly at the larger end; oval; about 30 x 21 mm. Incubation: about 16 days.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Somewhat paler and greyer birds in west of range sometimes separated as a geographical subspecies, assimilis, but differences from eastern birds slight and variation apparently clinal.


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


Files:
JPG files for Sandstone Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla woodwardi) - 10 filesMP3 files for Sandstone Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla woodwardi) - 1 files


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