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Male
Photo by Tom Tarrant
Cunnamulla, SW Queensland, Australia, April 2007

Alternative names: Chestnut-breasted Groundbird; Chestnut-breasted Babbling-thrush; Black-vented Ground-thrush

Cinclosoma castaneothorax

Identification

21 - 25cm.
Male:

  • Warm olive-brown upperparts
  • Rich cinnamon-yellow upper breast
  • Face pattern like other Quail-thrushes, white eyebrow, broad white streak on side of black throat, rest greyish-brown
  • Chestnut upperparts
  • Black lower breast, cinnamon-yellow flanks, black broken line between flanks and white belly

Female:

Distribution

Found in east Australia (Central Queensland south to north-central New South Wales).
Uncommon.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Western Quail-thrush was formerly included in this species. Also the subspecies alisteri of Cinnamon Quail-thrush (now elevated to a full species, Nullarbor Quail-thrush) used to be included in this species.

Habitat

Stony hills with scrubby vegetation. Prefers low acacia-covered ridges.

Behaviour

Feeds on insects, spiders and seeds.
Forages on the ground, slowly walking. Elusive and shy.
Breeding season variable, does not breed at all in drought. The nest is a loose bowl of grass, leaves and twigs placed on the ground under a tree or shrub. Lays 2 eggs.
Resident species with some local dispersal according to rainfall.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422
  3. Simpson, K and N Day. 1998. Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-4877-5

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