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Eastern Yellow Robin
Photograph by Julian Robinson. Some rights reserved.
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Eastern Yellow Robin
Photograph by Tim Williams. Some rights reserved.
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The Eastern Yellow Robin is a small restless bird found in and around rainforest. The hardest part of photographing the bird is waiting for it to stay still for long enough to compose the shot. Photographed at O'Reilley's Lamington National Park
Photograph by ozwildlife. Some rights reserved.
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BIRD FACTS
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Description
The Eastern Yellow Robin has a grey back and head, and yellow under parts. Young are rufous-brown.
Size
16cm
Environment
dry woodlands to rainforests
Food
insects, spiders and other arthropods
Breeding
The nest is a woven cup of bark and grasses bound together with spider web and lined with finer material and leaves. It is built in a tree fork a few metres above ground. Lays 2-3 eggs.
Range
east and south-east of the Australian mainland
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Petroicidae | | Genus: | Eopsaltria | | Species: | australis | | Common Name: | Eastern Yellow Robin |
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