BirdUp · Species
Black-faced Monarch
Monarcha melanopsis(Vieillot, 1818)
Breeding Endemic
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Monarchidae
- Genus
- Monarcha
- 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.
- Jan
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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