Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) [XC185338]
by James Lambert from Tweed Heads South, New South Wales, Australia (call)
Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) [XC169088]
by nick talbot from Trinity Beach, Queensland, 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.
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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