MANGROVES AND MANGROVE BIRDS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 9 years ago

Abstract: Eighty-three blocks of mangroves were visited in Western Australia from Cambridge Gulf to Shark Bay between 1973 and 1982. The vegetation and substrate at each site are described. Twenty-two species of bird were found to be confined to mangroves or limited to them for at least part of their range in this State: Great-billed Heron (Ardea sumatrana), Mangrove Heron (Butorides striata), Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae), Chestnut Rail (Eulabeornis castaneoventris), Bar-shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis), Little Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus), Mangrove Kingfisher (Halcyon chloris), Lemon-breasted Flycatcher (Microeca flavigaster), Mangrove Robin (Eopsaltria pulverulenta), Mangrove Golden Whistler (Pachycephala melanura), White-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides), Wood Fantail (Rhipidura dryas), Mangrove Grey Fantail (Rhipidura phasiana),  Broad-billed Flycatcher (Myiagra ruficollis), Shining Flycatcher (Myiagra alecto), Mangrove Flyeater (Gerygone levigaster), Dusky Flyeater (gerygone tenebrosa), Large-billed Flyeater (Gerygone magnirostris), Yellow White-eye (Zosterops lutea), Red-headed Honeyeater (Myzomela erythrocephala), White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus), and Black Butcherbird (Cracticus quoyi). For each species, data are given on distribution, status, ecology, voice, food, breeding, colour of unfeathered parts, and for some species notes on geographic variation and taxonomy.