Australian Chats (Epthianuridae)
White-fronted Chat (Epthianura albifrons) - HBW 12, p. 626
French: Epthianure à front blanc
German: Weißgesicht-Trugschmätzer
Spanish: Eptianuro Pío
Other common names: White-faced Chat, White-fronted Bushchat, Tang
Taxonomy: Acanthiza albifrons Jardine and Selby, 1828, New Holland = New South Wales, Australia.
Genus name often spelt erroneously as Ephthianura. Genus was in the past sometimes placed in thornbill family (Acanthizidae), and more recent analyses of DNA-DNA hybridization indicate that it belongs with the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae); further study required. Tasmanian birds exhibit tendency towards larger size (mainly bill) than those from mainland Australia; described as a race, tasmanica, but differences slight and recognition of geographical races considered unwarranted. Monotypic.
Distribution: S Western Australia (S from c. 23° S in far W) E to South Australia (mainly S of 30° S), New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male perched on a bush. Locality Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 31 August 2007 5 years ago 14 sec 4.4 -
A male stretching its wings then flying away Locality Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 23 March 2007 5 years ago 10 sec 4.4 -
A female perched on a post with its beak full of mosquito and flying away. Locality Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 31 August 2007 5 years ago 7 sec 3.9 -
A bird preening on a barbed wire Locality Penrice Saltfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 30 October 2005 7 years ago 23 sec 3.7 -
A male preening Locality Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 23 March 2007 5 years ago 2 sec 3.6 -
A bird perched on a barbed wire, preening Locality Penrice Saltfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 30 October 2005 7 years ago 25 sec 3.6
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White-fronted Chat with grub
Locality Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2007 2 years ago 4.5 -
White-fronted chat gathering food for chick.
Locality Pipe Clay Lagoon, Tasmania, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 8 December 2012 22 weeks ago 4.5 -
A male perching on a bush.
Locality Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 1 November 2010 2 years ago 4.5 -
Female feeding on coastal shrubbery
Locality Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2008 2 years ago 4.5 -
This male White-fronted Chat had captured a delicous grub!
Locality Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2008 2 years ago 4.4 -
Male White-fronted Chat
Locality Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2008 2 years ago 4.1
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A female, feeding on the ground, gives a single call as a Gouldian Finch approaches Locality Featherdale Wildlife Park, New South Wales, Australia
(Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 25 February 2009 3 years ago 3.7
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