Logrunners (Orthonychidae)
Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii) - HBW 12, p. 347
French: Orthonyx de Spalding
German: Schwarzkopf-Stachelschwanzflöter
Spanish: Colaespina de Spalding
Other common names: Black-headed/Northern/Spalding’s Logrunner, Northern Chowchilla, Spalding’s Spinetail
Taxonomy: Orthonix [sic] spaldingii E. P. Ramsay, 1868, Rockingham Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- melasmenus Schodde & Mason, 1999 - NE Australia in coastal ranges from Mt Amos and Mt Finnegan S to Thornton Range (NE Queensland).
- spaldingii E. P. Ramsay, 1868 - Macalister and Herberton Ranges S to Seaview and Paluma Ranges (NE Queensland).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male removing dry leaves and feeding Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 27 July 2007 3 years ago 22 sec 4.7 -
Two birds looking for food on the ground, behind a trunk Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 27 July 2007 3 years ago 14 sec 4 -
A female foraging behind a trunk Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 27 July 2007 3 years ago 7 sec 4 -
Two birds moving on the forest ground Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Waanders 3 August 2004 5 years ago 57 sec 3
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A male foraging in the leaf litter
Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (ssp spaldingii)
Arthur Grosset 1 December 2010 29 weeks ago 4 -
A female foraging in the leaf litter
Locality Paluma, Queensland, Australia (ssp spaldingii)
Arthur Grosset 30 November 2010 29 weeks ago 4 -
Singing female Chowchilla.
Locality Mount Lewis Forest Reserve, Queensland, Australia (ssp Orthonyx spaldingii melasmenus)
akoetz 2 December 2004 2 years ago 3 -
Male foraging in rainforest leaf litter
Locality Mount Lewis Forest Reserve, Queensland, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 9 August 2009 50 weeks ago 2.9
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A Chowchilla song - Koombooloomba Dam dialect. Locality Koombooloomba Dam, Queensland, Australia
(ssp spaldingii)
akoetz 10 July 2005 2 years ago 4
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