August 21, 2023 - Bower's Shrikethrush or Stripe-breasted Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla boweri) These shrikethrushes are found in rainforests in northeastern Australia. They eat insects and occasionally frogs, picking prey from foliage, branches, and tree trunks, and sometimes capturing it in short flights. Breeding between September and December, they build compact cup-shaped nests from rootlets, dry leaves, twigs, fronds, bark strips, spiderwebs, and tendrils in trees or vine tangles. Females lay clutches of two, or sometimes three, eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the chicks. They are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN because of rapid population declines due to heatwaves and more extreme dry seasons caused by climate change.
