#Colluricincla boweri

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August 21, 2023 - Bower's Shrikethrush or Stripe-breasted Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla boweri) These shrikethrushes are found in rainforests in northeastern Australia. They eat insects and occasionally frogs, picking prey from foliage, branches, and tree trunks, and sometimes capturing it in short flights. Breeding between September and December, they build compact cup-shaped nests from rootlets, dry leaves, twigs, fronds, bark strips, spiderwebs, and tendrils in trees or vine tangles. Females lay clutches of two, or sometimes three, eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the chicks. They are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN because of rapid population declines due to heatwaves and more extreme dry seasons caused by climate change.

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[1626/10977] Bower's shrikethrush - Colluricincla boweri

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Family: Pachycephalidae Genus: Colluricincla (shrikethrush)

Photo credit: Enoch Bultreys via Macaulay Library

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Colluricincla boweri by Mick

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Bower's Shrike-thrush ♂️ 🔎 (Colluricincla boweri). ⏳ Conservation Status: Least Concern. Population stable. 🗺 Endemicity: The Wet Tropics region of north-east Queensland, Australia. 📷 Mount Lewis National Park, Queensland. – – #bowersshrikethrush #birdsofaustralia #australia #queensland #tropicalqueensland #tropics #birdsofinstagram #naturephotography #rainforest #birdsofthetropics #birds #birdphotography #bestbirdshots #thewettropics #nature #photography #endemic #mtlewis (at Mount Lewis National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoK0FP5BXDX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g4czgf551zps

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Bower’s Shrikethrush (Colluricincla boweri)

...a species of shrikethrush (Colluricinclidae) which is endemic to the continent of Australia, where is solely occurs in the Atherton region of north-east Quensland. Bower’s shrikethrushes typically occur in rainforest-covered mountains that are above 250 m (820 feet) in height, where they will forage for insects and their larvae in the mid canopy or sometimes even from the undergrowth. 

Classification

Animalia-Chordata-Aves-Passeriformes-Colluricinclidae-Colluricincla-C. boweri

Image: Jim Bendon