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 LC    Dusky Robin* Id (Atlas):
    Melanodryas vittata

Description (10)
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  Sexes alike.

Adults: Above, dark grey-brown. Wings and tail, dusky, with off-white band in base of flight feathers, and outer tail tipped white. Throat, off-white. Below, light brown, with center of belly, white. Eye, brown. Bill, black. Feet, black.

Juveniles: Coursly streaked above and mottled below with brown and white.

Immatures: Uniformly brown.


Other Names (World)
Dusky Robin, Sad Robin, Sleepy Robin, Stump Robin, Tasmanian Robin, Wood Robin, Dozey Robin, Native Sparrow, Sad Bird

Family
Petroicidae (Australasian Robins)

Size
16 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Derivation
Mel-an'-o-dry'-as - Gk, melanos, black; Gk, dryas, a dryad or wood-nymph: vit-ta'-ta - L., vittatus, banded

Habitat
Rainforest margins. Tracks, up to 1,200 m. Open forest, woodlands, scrubs, newly cleared areas, regrowth, country gardens.

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 or in twos and sometimes threes, and after breeding in small groups, possibly family parties, of twelve to twenty.

Food
Beetles, flies, spiders, worms and snails.

Voice
Call: Low, far-carrying double whistle, monotonously repeated, by both sexes. Song: Lively and sweetly plaintive 'choo-wee, choo-we-er'.



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

 
Dusky Robin (Melanodryas vittata) [XC502726]
     by Peter Boesman from Latrobe, Latrobe Council, Tasmania, Australia (song)

 
Dusky Robin (Melanodryas vittata) [XC859946]
     by Peter Boesman from Cloudy Bay road, Bruny, Tasmania, Australia (song)

Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of rootlets and grass, placed on the side of a stump, at the end of a log, or in a small tree.

Eggs (Guide)
Usually 3; pale green-blue to brown-olive with obscure darker shadings; oval; about 22 x 16 mm. Incubation: about 14 - 15 days. Two, sometimes three broods a season.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 13 - 16 days. Fed by both parents.

Subspecies
Subspecies kingi, is somewhat rustier in color than vittata.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • vittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)   -  Tasmania and Furneaux Group, Bass Strait.
  • kingi (Mathews, 1914)   -  King Island.



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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