Restricted to mangroves on tropical coastline with a strong preference for forests of stilt-rooted mangroves Rhizophera causing patchy distribution. Forages mainly on ground-dwelling ants and small crabs, captured by pounces from low perches or by hopping slowly along the ground.
The Australian Bird Guide, Peter Menkhorst et al
Classifications: | Bird, water and shoreline |
Family: | Petroicidae |
Information sources: | Photo taken at Tedlands by Maris Schoeb |