Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
Royal National Park, Sydney, and Sherbrooke Forest, Melbourne, Australia

The Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis is distributed from the extreme southeast corner of South Australia through most of Victoria and the western half of New South Wales and north as far as Cooktown. Tropical northern Queensland birds are mainly restricted to the cool heights of the Great Dividing Range. The species occupies a wide range of habitats: heaths, mallee, acacia scrub, woodlands and sclerophyll forests, but is most often found in damper places or near water where it is often the most conspicuous and approachable passerine.

At 15 to 16cm in length, the Eastern Yellow Robin is one of the larger Australasian robins, and one of the most easily observed. Pairs and small family parties establish a territory - sometimes year-round, sometimes for a season. They appear not to migrate any great distance, but will make local movements with the seasons, particularly to higher and lower ground.

Eastern Yellow Robins tend to inhabit fairly dark, shaded locations and is a perch and pounce hunter, typically from a tree trunk (I’ve often seen them clinging to a trunk like a Nuthatch), wire, or low branch. Their diet is a wide range of small creatures, mostly insects. Breeding takes place in the spring and, as with many Australian birds, is often communal. The nest is a neat cup made of fine plant material and spider web, usually placed in a fork, and expertly disguised with lichen, moss, bark, or leaves.
(Adapted from Wikipedia: Eastern Yellow Robin)

Adult. Royal National Park, Sydney. October 2005

Adult. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Adult. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Adult. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Adult. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Adult. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Immature. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005

Immature. Blue Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne. December 2005