Black-faced Monarch
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Black-faced Monarch

Monarcha melanopsis(Vieillot, 1818)

Breeding Endemic
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Commonness
Endemic
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The black-faced monarch is a passerine songbird in the family Monarchidae found along the eastern seaboard of Australia, and also New Guinea.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
North-east QLD (south of Cape York Pen.) to south-east VIC (east Australia)
Non-breeding range
To south-central and south-east New Guinea and satellites and Cape York Pen., north-east QLD (north-east Australia)

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
  2. Feb
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  5. May
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  12. Dec

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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