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Compare female Hooded Robin, which has white bars in folded wing, white edges to tail, and typically inhabits more open areas.
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Small plump songbird found in heavy vegetation along creeks in southwestern Australia. White below, gray above, with darker gray wings. In flight, shows pale tail tips and pale wing stripe. Also compare Jacky Winter, which has extensive white edges to tail.
Gould had called it 'white-bellied robin' in 1848, and other terms used included grey-breasted or white-breasted shrike-robin from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. trifidum ), karri she–oak ( Allocasuarina decussata ), and nedik ( Bossiaea aquifolium ), typically along rivers and gullies.
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