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The Eastern Yellow Robin is a small restless bird found in and around rainforest.
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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Eastern Yellow Robin has a grey back and head, and yellow under parts. Young are rufous-brown.
Size
16cm
Habitat
dry woodlands to rainforests
Food
insects, spiders and other arthropods
Breeding
The nest is a woven cup of bark and grasses bound together with spider web and lined with finer material and leaves. It is built in a tree fork a few metres above ground. Lays 2-3 eggs.
Range
east and south-east of the Australian mainland
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Petroicidae | | Genus: | Eopsaltria | | Species: | australis | | Common Name: | Eastern Yellow Robin |
Relatives in same Genus
White-breasted Robin (E. georgiana)
Western Yellow Robin (E. griseogularis)
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