Male © Laurie Ross | Tracks Birding & Photography Tours eBird S55105972 Macaulay Library ML 151964721
Female © Laurie Ross | Tracks Birding & Photography Tours
Pair © James Kennerley
Female © James Kennerley
Male © Tim Bawden

Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum

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Identification

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Heavily patterned terrestrial bird of Western Australia and western South Australia. White eyebrow and moustache, with deep chestnut brown back and intricately patterned wing. Female has white belly and gray chest, male white belly, gray flanks, and black chest and throat. Note gray sides rather than warm brown sides of Cinnamon and Nullarbor quail-thrushes. Usually seen walking around in areas of open woodland and shrubland. Call is a long, high-pitched whistled "seeeep."

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