Chirruping Wedgebill

Psophodes cristatus

Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA IMG_7722 20180627 - male calling.

Notes: Plain coloured, dumpy w. long thin forward-curving crest, short wedge-shaped bill. Very
similar to Chiming Wedgebill but songs differ markedly. More contrast crown to crest. Longer
broad white tips to outer tail feathers. Male gives a squeaky three-note song; female responds
with a loud chir-up. Very wary. Sedentary. In tall scrub of Acacia, canegrass; often along
watercourses.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart^©

Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA MVI_7739 20180628 - male calling. Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA MVI_7740 20180628 - female responding Simpson Desert crossing, NE SA IMG_8268 20180702 - a family. Maree, NE SA IMG_7194 20160602 Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA MVI_7738 20180627 - broad white tips to outer tail feathers. Boolcoomatta, E SA IMG_5872 20160526 - adult (black bill) and juvenile (pink-brown bill). Boolcoomatta, E SA IMG_5890 20160526 - juvenile (pink-brown bill). Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA MVI_7738 20180628 - male on right calling, female on left responding. Walkers Crossing Track, @ the Crossing. NE SA MVI_7718 20180627 - male calling. Bowra Sanctuary, Cunnamulla, S Qld MVI_6681 20180618 - flushing two.

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