Gilbert's Whistler

Pachycephala inornata

Mount Korong, Wedderburn, N Vic IMG_3906 20211101 - male. CLICK for pic of bird singing.

Notes: Chunky grey songbird w. heavy black bill. Male has pale orange throat & dark, not orange,
in lores (compare Red-lored Whistler). Female greyish, paler under the tail (as opposed to yellow
in Golden Whistler), with much shorter bill & darker ventral area than Grey Shrike-thrush. Female
underparts sometimes streaked pale grey. Voice includes a pulsating repeated "chowp-chowp-….".
Cryptic. Low in dry forest w. dense understory & bushland across semi-arid southern Aus.

Range from BirdsOfTheWorld©