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Measuring 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in), the ashy robin is a large and solidly built robin. It has a sooty black head and cheeks, with a white stripe extending backwards and upwards from the eyes. It has a white throat darkening to buff underparts and olive-brown upperparts. There is a white patch on the otherwise dark-plumaged wing. The bill is grey-black, the eyes are dark brown, and the legs pale pink.
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When to see the Ashy Robin
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Ashy Robin
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia.
About the Ashy Robin
The ashy robin, also known as the black-cheeked robin, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae native to New Guinea.
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Easily confused with
Black-capped RobinHeteromyias armitiThe black-capped robin is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae native to New Guinea.
Grey-headed RobinHeteromyias cinereifronsThe grey-headed robin has, as its name suggests, a grey crown and lores, white throat and olive-brown ear coverts and upperparts, with a white patch on the wings.
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