Endemic to Australia...in drier
               open forests and coastal swamp
               forests...widely found.
          
         
            
               Plectorhyncha lanceolata
            
               (L 8.7-9.8" WS 11-14"
            
               Wt 1.4 oz)
          
         
            
               Hattah-Kulkyne
               Nat’l Park
            
               29Oct2015
          
         
            
               Nest made of
               Emu feathers.
          
         
            
               © Marc
               Anderson
            
               xeno-canto
          
         
            
               Plectorhyncha is Greek
               for spear-pointed bill;
               lanceolata is Latin for
               spear-shaped.