Yellow-breasted Boatbill
Machaerirhynchus flaviventer
Greenhoose, Iron Range NP, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_1901 20191212 - flaviventer male: yellow . Mantle olive, crown black.
Notes: Bill is large and wide, shape like an upturned boat,
surrounded by bristles. Nominate
flaviventer male: bright yellow
forehead, eyebrow; black cap contrasts w. olive back. Female:
olive upperparts,
paler yellow underparts faintly barred & blotched grey. Ssp secundus:
back
blackish, like crown; more prominent white shoulder bars. In rainforests,
thickets.
Range from Morcombe©
Greenhoose, Iron Range NP, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_1886 20191212 - flaviventer female. CLICK for another with male below.
Greenhoose, Iron Range NP, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_2491 20191215 - flaviventer male.
Portland Roads Road, Iron Range NP, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_5258 20180220 - flaviventer male.
Feathers'n'Friends, Julatten, FNE Qld IMG_5361 20210310 - secundus male. CLICK to see how large and wide the bill is.
Crystal Cascades, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_0176 20180414 - secundus male
Gordonvale, FNE Qld IMG_8766 20161005 - secundus male. CLICK for song with Bar-shouldered Dove in background.
Feathers'n'Friends, Julatten, FNE Qld IMG_5379 20210310 - secundus male. CLICK for another view.
Greenhoose, Iron Range NP, CYP, FNE Qld IMG_1725 20191212 - flaviventer male
Feathers'n'Friends, Julatten, FNE Qld IMG_5380 20210310 - secundus male
Gordonvale, FNE Qld MVI_8771 20161005 - secundus male