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YELLOW-BREASTED BOATBILL
Photo: C & D Frith
Australia's Cape York
Peninsula
YELLOW-BREASTED BOATBILL:
Machaerirhynchus flaviventer 12 cm
- In Australia the Yellow-breasted Boatbill is
restricted to north Queensland.
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It is a flycatcher that forages mainly in the middle
storey of rainforests.
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The male is mainly black and yellow, with a wide bill and often
a cocked
tail.
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The female is
duller.
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The
call is a soft ‘pee-dee-dee-dee-wit’.
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Usually
in pairs, it is an active feeder in foliage. It also hawks flying insects.
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Near Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge
it is moderately common.
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