Grey Shrike-thrush - Colluricincla harmonica

Grey Shrike-thrush

Colluricincla harmonica

Family: Pachycephalidae (Whistlers, Shrike-thrushes and allies, 14 species in Australia)
Size: 24 cm
Distribution: Most of Australia apart from a few Central Australian regions
Status: Common
Habitat: Forest, woodland, scrub, mallee, gardens
References: Simpson and Day, Reader's Digest

The Grey Shrike-thrush is best known for its lovely song. Birdwatchers call this bird the "GST".

Grey Shrike-thrush - Colluricincla harmonica
Photo: Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW

Grey Shrike-thrush - Colluricincla harmonica
Artwork: John Gould, 'The Birds of Australia', 1848. Original Scanned Image.

Some Birdwatching Resources

Know Your Birds, by Louise Egerton - Grey Shrike-thrush - Colluricincla harmonica NEW: Know Your Birds, by Louise Egerton.

Revised edition 3 July 2019. Paperback / softback, 176 pages. It has an orange cover. The original edition was 2005 and has a blue cover. Some of the book sellers listed here show the photo from the original/older blue cover edition, but the rest of the info (including the publication date and ISBN) are from the newer revised 2019 edition, so presumably that's the one you'll get.

This book has very high quality large photographs of the birds (as in actual photographs). Most of the photos take up a whole page for each bird photograph. "Know Your Birds" only has a selection of the most common birds, and not all the birds that are found in Australia. This makes it very good for beginners — since most of the field guides have all the birds — and it can be confusing looking at six almost identical species of birds, not knowing that five of them are rare and it's probably the common one that you're looking for. Which would be the only one listed in this book.

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Australian Bird Field Guides

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