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Golden Whistler - Pachycephala pectoralis

Resident in small numbers. A small bird; male has black head and breast band, white throat, golden nape and belly, with olive-green back; female is greyish brown with buff underparts, juvenile is like female but with wing feathers edged rufous.

Voice: Melodious whi-whi-whi-whit, the last syllable like a whip-crack. Contact call is a rising 'seep'.

Call 1: whip-crack calls
Call 2: contact calls: Striated Thornbills chatter as well

Female

Male

Photographs and sounds courtesy Merilyn Browne.

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