Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
Habitat degradation due to invasion of the weed Mimosa pigra which renders the habitat unsuitable.
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'.
Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) [XC287803]
by Phil Gregory from Lake Argyle, Western Australia, Australia (call, voices)
Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) [XC239868]
by id from Roebuck Plains Station, Western Australia, Australia (alarm call, call)
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.
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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