- Lalage tricolor
Identification
15·5–18·5 cm (6-7¼ in)
Short slender bill, long wings, long tail with a rounded tip.
Breeding male
- Black upperparts, head and body and wing-coverts
- White underparts (including chin), and under-wings, wide white wing patch
Non-breeding males
- Brownish plumage
- Light underparts
- Pale brow
- Dark line through the eye.
Female is similar, though the male has a greyer rump.
All birds have a netted pattern on the wings - black and white on the breeding male, black and dark brown to light brown in the non-breeding male, and dark brown to light brown in the female.
Distribution
Port Moresby area (New Guinea); southern Torres Strait islands.; mainland Australia
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
White-winged Triller and White-shouldered Triller are considered conspecific (as White-winged Triller L. sueurii) by Boles and Cristidis, and Birds Australia. Dickinson (2003) and Gill and Donsker (2010) (and Opus) recognise two separate species.
Habitat
Open woodlands and forest, tree-lined waterways in semi-arid regions and the nearby scrub.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of insects, such as caterpillars, grasshoppers and crickets; fruit, seeds and occasionally nectar.
Breeding
They build small cup nests of bark, grasses and fine material, bound with spiders' web. They sometimes use the empty nests of other birds, favouring the mud nests of Magpie-lark. Both parents incubate and care for the young.
Vocalisation
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Birds in Backyards
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Aug 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-winged Triller. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-winged_Triller
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