Male Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii)
© Malcolm Tattersall
They scratch around in the forest floor for their food and are reluctant to emerge into the open as the Noisy Pitta does. Every other time I have visited Gumburu they have made themselves really obvious by their raucous calls early in the morning but this time I hardly heard them. Paluma was drier this time than I have ever seen it before, so perhaps their numbers are down because of food shortage.
Captured on 21 Aug 2011
Photograph location coordinates are -19.007786:146.20955.
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