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What the Australian Logrunner sounds like
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Logrunners as a group are characterised by their distinctive tail feathers where the rachis (or central shafts) of the tail feathers protrude and are stiffened. The broad tail of the bird is less than four inches (10 cm) in length and the strong protruding rachis at the ends of the tail feathers are almost void of the usual barbs, giving the feather the appearance of spines. This appearance gives rise to some of the common names for the bird such as spine-tail or spine-tailed logrunner. There appears to be some debate about the number of tail feathers possessed by the Australian logrunner.
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When to see the Australian Logrunner
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Australian Logrunner
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 Papua New Guinea.
About the Australian Logrunner
The Australian logrunner is a species of bird that is endemic to eastern Australia where it uses unique foraging techniques and adaptations to search for its food on the floors of temperate, subtropical, or tropical moist lowland forests in south-eastern Australia. Until 2002, it was widely considered to be conspecific with the New Guinea logrunner, but studies showed the two differ significantly, both genetically and vocally.
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Easily confused with
ChowchillaOrthonyx spaldingiiUnmistakable thrush-like, ground-dwelling, birds.
Papuan LogrunnerOrthonyx novaeguineaeThe Papuan logrunner or New Guinea logrunner is a species of bird in the family Orthonychidae.
Side by side: Australian Logrunner vs Chowchilla
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