Habitat
Rainforests, vine scrub, vegetated watercourses, coastal scrubs, nearby eucalypt woodlands in northern Queensland. Monsoon rainforest, swamp woodlands, bamboo and pandanus thickets near watercourses and springs, mangroves in north-western Australia.
White-browed Robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) [XC439267]
by Pieter de Groot Boersma from Coen River, Oyala Thumotang National Park, Queensland, Australia (call, song)
White-browed Robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) [XC439269]
by AUDEVARD Aur\u00e9lien from Coen River, Oyala Thumotang National Park, Queensland, Australia (song)
Nest
A neat, frail cup, composed of grass, strips of bark and plant fiber, bound with cobweb, lined with leaves, in a young tree, a few meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; smooth, matt, pale yellow-green, green-grey, blue-green or buff-green, spotted and blotched with browns, all over or in an indistinct zone, particularly at the larger end; oval to long-oval; about 20 x 15 mm. Incubation: about 16 days; by female only.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 9 days. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
No subspecies. Sometimes treated as conspecific with Buff-sided Robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris).
Poecilodryas superciliosa (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993; Christidis and Boles 1994) has been split into White-browed Robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) and Buff-sided Robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) following Christidis and Boles (2008).
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