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 LC    Hooded Robin* Id (Atlas):
    Melanodryas cucullata

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Hooded Robin, Hooded Robin-flycatcher, Pied Robin, Black Robin, Black-and-white Robin, Northern Hooded Robin, Southern Hooded Robin, Western Hooded Robin

Family
Petroicidae (Australasian Robins)

Size
14 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1801)

Derivation
Mel-an'-o-dry'-as - Gk, melanos, black; Gk, dryas, a dryad or wood-nymph: cu-cul-lat'-a - L., cucullatus, hooded

Habitat
Drier eucalypt forests, woodlands, scrubs with fallen logs. Avoids dense forest.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

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Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Singly, in twos or occasionally, small family groups.

Food
Insects, mostly procured on the ground.

Voice
A clear 'whee yew, whee yew yew', uttered by male before dawn. Otherwise silent.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
Hooded Robin (Melanodryas cucullata) [XC434089]
     by Marc Anderson from Bowra Station, near Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia (call)

 
Hooded Robin (Melanodryas cucullata) [XC354226]
     by Marc Anderson from Bowra Station, near Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia (call, song)

Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of rootlets, bark and grass, bound with cobweb, lined with soft material, usually in the upright fork of a tree, from 1 - 7 meters above the ground.

Eggs (Guide)
2; olive- to blue-green, clouded red-brown to olive at the larger end; oval; about 21 x 16 mm. Incubation: about 14 days; by female.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 12 - 14 days. Fed by both parents and helpers.

Subspecies
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • cucullata (Latham, 1801)   -  South-eastern Australia (excluding wetter forests), from Expedition - Chesterton Ranges, south-eastern Qld, south along the Great Divide and extending east to the coast south of Clarence River Drainage, New South Wales and inland to eastern Darling River Drainage, Murray - Mallee and Mt Lofty - southern Flinders Ranges and Yorke Peninsula, SA.
  • westralensis (Mathews, 1912)   -  Central-western WA to south-western NT and north-western SA from Goldfields Regions, Pilbara, Shark Bay and WA Wheatbelt, east to Gibson and southern Tanami Deserts, NT, western fringes of Simpson Desert and Lake Eyre Basin, SA and Eyre Peninsula and Nullarbor Plain, SA.
  • picata Gould, 1865   -  North-western and central-eastern Australia, from southern and eastern Kimberely Divide, WA, and central Arnhem Land, NT, south and east through central and eastern NT to the eastern fringe of Simpson - Strzelecki Deserts, central Qld, and south-western Qld, and north-eastern New South Wales.
  • melvillensis (Zietz, FR, 1914)   -  Tiwi Island, NT.



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


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