Day: March 5, 2024

Bird of the Week Invitation: LIV

This week is the turn of the Golden Whistler. I know when they are in the garden or the surrounding bush. They don’t sit for very long but when they do they are looking around. When they see something, they can stop and look before launching at lunch, as this male Golden Whistler is about to do.

The Golden Whistler is found from northern Queensland, around coastal eastern and southern Australia, including Tasmania, to the middle of Western Australia

The females are quite pretty just not as showy as the males

I guess you want to hear one of Australia’s loudest and most beautiful songsters

REF: http://www.graemechapman.com.au/index.php

Golden Whistlers feed on insects, spiders and other small arthropods. Berries are also eaten. Feeding is usually done alone and most food is obtained from the lower or middle tree level

Male and female Golden Whistlers share the nest building duties. The nest is a shallow bowl, made of twigs, grass and bark, bound together with spider web and lined with finer grass. The nest is placed in a fork in a bush or tree up to 6 m above the ground.

I think this is a young Golden Whistler, maybe morphing into a male. Like most birds, the young look like the females until maturity.

REF: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/golden-whistler/