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Eopsaltria australis
Eastern Yellow Robin

DESCRIPTION:

The Eastern Yellow Robin has a yellow breast with grey wings, legs, tail and beak. It has a small pointy beak and is very small overall. It has black streaks on its wings and has black, beady and small eyes.


Eastern Yellow Robin
By Andrea and Amy
October 1998

BEHAVIOUR:

The Eastern Yellow Robin is mainly adorable. It closely resembles other robins in general behaviour. It is quiet, unobstrusive and tame and confiding with humans. It lives in permanent territorial pairs and is usually encountered alone.

FOOD:

The Eastern Yellow Robin eats bark, grass, dried leaves, insects and small invertebrates.

REPRODUCTION:

Breeding occurs from July to January and up to three broods are sometimes made in succession. The Eastern Yellow Robin lays up to three eggs. Incubation takes about 15 days and the young fledge in about 10 - 14 days. The female builds and incubates but both parents participate in rearing the young, usually assisted by other birds. Two or three eggs consist in a clutch.

DESCRIPTION OF SOUND:

The eastern Yellow Robin's song is a lengthy series of piping notes, with a variety of harsh scolding calls. It utters a distinctive chop, chop note long before dawn and sometimes after dark.

HABITAT:

The Eastern Yellow Robin lives in rainforests, eucalypt forests , scrub, urban parks and gardens.The most common habitats are forests and woodlands.

DISTRIBUTION:

The Eastern Yellow Robin does not occur in Tasmania but is otherwise widespread in common forests and woodlands almost throughout South Eastern, South Australia, north to Atherton Tableland in Queensland and extending well into the interior. It is mainly sedentary, but there is a marked dispersal from high altitudes in winter.

INTERESTING FACTS: 

The Eastern Yellow robin has a distinctive habit of clinging sideways to lower branches and trunks of trees and is one of the earliest birds to wake in the morning. It pounces off lower tree trunks onto insects. The Eastern Yellow robin makes a nest out of bark, fragments and grass bound with dried leaves and usually placed in an upright fork of a small tree seldom more than 5 metres from the ground.

Bibliography :

Birds of Australia
Multimedia CD published by Websters

Research by Andrea and Amy 4/5S

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