Chowchilla (species: Orthonyx spaldingii) in Yungaburra, QLD (Gaia Guide)
Orthonyx spaldingii
Chowchilla


©Malcolm Tattersall: Male Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii)

©Tom Tarrant: Male Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii)

©Malcolm Tattersall: Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii)
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Orthonychidae
Genus Orthonyx
Species Orthonyx spaldingii
Status least concern

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Distinguishing features

They are unmistakable thrush-like, ground-dwelling, birds. Males and females are largely dark brown with white eye-ring, tail-feather shafts extend as spines beyond feather-vanes; males with white throat, breast and belly; females with bright rufous throat and upper breast, white lower breast and belly. (Wikipedia)

Size

  • From 26 cm to 28 cm (Length of specimen)

Wingspan

  • Wingspan data is not yet available.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

It is restricted to upland and lowland tropical rainforests of north-eastern Queensland. (Wikipedia)

Diet

They eat mainly invertebrates, but also small vertebrates. (Wikipedia)

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