PACHYCEPHALIDAE Satin Flycatcher

0788 Satin Flycatcher - Myiagra cyanoleuca

Satin Flycatcher - Myiagra cyanoleuca. These birds breed and forage in the taller wetter eucalypt forests of coastal southeastern Australia. They feed singly or in dispersed pairs through the upper strata of the forest on grasshoppers, beetles, blowflies, crane-flies, moths and long-tailed wasps. These are caught on the wing. The nest in loose colonies of 2-5 pairs nesting 20-50 metres apart. Sometimes they feign injury and rodent-run, fluttering along the ground, to divert attention from the nest. INFORMATION FROM: Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. IMAGE BY: Hazel Hogarth TAKEN: June 2014 Fogg Dam NT