Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush

Cinclosoma castaneothorax ‡

Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0259 20260923 - immature male (immature: some retained juvenile feathers,
wing-coverts).

 Notes: Both sexes have white belly, pale eyebrow, greyish-olive mantle streaked black, speckled
undertail, & markings on wing. Male has broad unbroken rufous-brown breast-band separating
black throat & narrow black breast-band. Female has buff throat w. no black there nor on breast
which is grayish-olive. Juvenile like female but supercilium is whiter, broad & distinctive; under-
parts motttled & dark streaked. Inhabit stony hills, breakaway country w. open scrub or woodland.

Range from Pizzey & Knight^©2.2.1

Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0267 20260923 - immature male. Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0270 20260923 - immature male. Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0259 20260923 - immature male Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0259 20260923 Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0259 20260923 Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Qld IMG_0259 20260923

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