Vik's Gallery:   Green Catbird (1/2)

PASSERIFORMES: Ptilonorhynchidae

Ailuroedus crassirostris  

Green Catbirds are mainly fruit-eaters but their diet also includes animals such as grasshoppers, cicadas, longicorn and other beetles and their larvae, millipedes, mites and tree frogs.

Not the most retiring of birds, they have been known to displace a Grey Shrike-thrush from a 70 mm long Green Tree Frog in order to take the frog, an Eastern Yellow Robin from its prey, and to take a Rufous Fantail nestling from its nest.*

*The Bowerbirds by Clifford B. Frith and Dawn W. Frith, 2004, p.252.