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Grey-crowned Babbler family group foraging on grass
Record ID record-61ff5ae7-2c0f-4674-9d35-eb39ec0473bf
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Grey-crowned Babbler family group of four foraging on grass at dawn, Mary River valley, Qld, 27 Oct 2026.
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Close pair showing the white-tipped tail, rufous wing patch and grey crown.
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Family group, 05:29 AEST.
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Pair, 05:35 AEST.
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- Basis of record
- Human observation
- Verbatim identification
- Grey-crowned Babbler
- Taxon rank
- Subspecies
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pomatostomidae
- Genus
- Pomatostomus
- Subgenus
- Pomatostomus
- Specific epithet
- temporalis
- Infraspecific epithet
- temporalis
- Scientific name
- Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis
- Scientific name authorship
- (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
- Name according to
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Nomenclatural code
- ICZN (zoological)
- Taxonomic status
- Accepted
- Name match type
- Exact match
- Checklist
- Australian Faunal Directory, via the Atlas of Living Australia name-matching service
- Checklist version
- checked 2026-11-01
- Scientific name ID
- https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/24566535-f3df-4976-880a-3a020710c994
- Identification remarks
- Photographed: grey crown, bold white eyebrow and throat, dark mask, down-curved bill, rufous wing patch, long dark tail with white tip, foraging as a family group.
- Identification confidence
- Certain
- Wild, cultivated or captive
- Wild
- Establishment means
- Native
- Individual count
- 4
- Life stage
- Adult
- Sex
- Not recorded
- Event date
- 2026-10-27
- Sampling protocol
- Seen and photographed with a phone (Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra), naked eye, 05:29–05:36 AEST.
- Occurrence remarks
- A family group of at least four Grey-crowned Babblers foraging together on short grass at the edge of eucalypt woodland at dawn, probing the ground and moving as a group.
- Uncertainty remarks
- Subspecies taken from range (eastern Australia); not separately confirmed. Count is a minimum: four birds in frame at once.
- Occurrence status
- Present
- Behaviour
- Foraging on the ground as a family group at dawn.
- Data quality statement
- Identified from four phone photos showing diagnostic features; name checked as an exact match in the Australian Faunal Directory (via ALA) on 2026-11-01. Subspecies by range only. Photos uploaded as GPS-free clean copies.
- Source
- Contributor's phone photos 20261027_052925–053544
- Place
- Not shown on public record pages
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Rob Evans (2026). Grey-crowned Babbler family group foraging on grass. Clio Online Museum. https://cliomuseum.org/records/record-61ff5ae7-2c0f-4674-9d35-eb39ec0473bf
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Published recordVersion 2
Creators
- Rob Evans https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6391-4464 (opens in a new tab) (verified with ORCID)
Version and provenance
- Version identifier
version-97cc8021-ec72-4751-b205-87924b3f941a- Canonical commitment
sha3-384:cc7864121e154a060f4eef11ab5bc35d9ba7e50396d6731644d25a1f350471ff0e73830ff67c86415ceb97ca443f7eb4- Accepted
- Previous version
version-4aed38df-6abf-4c95-a8e5-e54212543a1c
Evidence profile and standards
- Darwin Core 2026-05-26
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