Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) [XC691014]
by Craig Robertson from Moth Block (Casuarina Coastal Reserve Land Care Group) (near Tiwi), Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia (song)
Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) [XC380728]
by nick talbot from Cassowary House, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia, Australia (call)
Nest
Small, shallow, saucer-shaped, composed of rootlets and grasses, bound with cobweb, usually on a slender horizontal fork a meter or so from the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
1; slightly, glossy, pale green, speckled, streaked or blotched with red-chestnut to purple-brown and grey, sometimes concentrated at larger end to form a zone; oval; about 26 x 17 mm. Incubation: by both parents.
macrura Schodde, 1989 - North-eastern western Australia (Kimberleys).
rufiventris (Gray, GR, 1846) - Northern Northern Territory (Arnhem Land) and Melville I, in northern Australia.
yorki Mathews, 1912 - Coastal northern Queensland (Cape York Peninsula) and islands in Torres Strait. Also coastal Trans-Fly region of south-central New Guinea.
trobriandi Mayr, 1936 - Trobriand Islands.
Similar Species
Male with male White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) which lacks a white eyebrow and has a white wing shoulder but not bars, and in poor views female with female Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) which is larger, has barred underparts and is darker above.
Compare Images
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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