Australasian grey-breasted figbird
A quick shot with the wrong lens, but hopefully enough detail to be helpful....
Figbirds are part of a worldwide family that includes the orioles. Males, as seen here, have bare, red skin around the eye, contrasting against a black crown and grey neck and throat. The remainder of the body is olive-green, except for a white under-tail area. There are two distinct colour forms of the males of this species - males in the north of the country have a yellow front, in contrast to the completely olive-green birds in the south.
There are five sub species recognised, this being Sphecotheres vieilloti vieilloti, the grey-breasted figbird.
28 cm length
The Australasian Figbird is a conspicuous medium-sized passerine bird native to a wide range of wooded habitats in northern and eastern Australia, southern Papua New Guinea, and the Kai Islands in Indonesia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of "S. viridis", then simply referred to as the Figbird.
