Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans
Female Brush Bronzewing, Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image Cheyne Beach, Western Australia
October 2013

The Brush Bronzewing is distributed from south-east Queensland round to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, Tasmania and in south-west Western Australia. It is found in dense woodland and scrub including coastal heaths where it feeds mainly on seeds.

Female Brush Bronzewing, Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image It is dark olive-brown above with rich chestnut on the nape and shoulders and two bronzed blue-green bars on the wings (best seen in photo 2). The male has a buff forehead while the female, seen here in photos 1 and 2, has a grey forehead. I believe that photo 3 must be of a sub-adult. Immature plumage does not show the chestnut throat or line behind the eye.

The song is higher pitched and at shorter intervals than that of the Common Bronzewing P. chalcoptera.

Female Brush Bronzewing, Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image
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