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Eastern Shriketit
Falcunculus frontatus (Latham, 1801)
Falcunculidae — Shriketits
Eastern Shriketit, Falcunculus frontatus, is an Australian passerine of the family Falcunculidae, living in south-eastern Australia from the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland south through New South Wales and Victoria to the south-east of South Australia. It is also known as bark tit, crested tit and yellow-bellied tit. The bird has olive-brown to olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts, with a bold black line through the eye and another across the crown. The male shows an erectable crest, and its bill is used to prise bark away. It was described by Latham in 1801.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Falcunculidae — Shriketits
- Breeding range
- Australasia: ne QLD from Atherton to se SA and VIC (e, se Australia)
