Colour Print - "Red-capped Robin" (0462)

Description

Often tame, confiding and curious, the Red-capped Robin is regularly recorded as part of mixed-species feeding-flocks, often joining with other small insectivorous species, especially with various species of thornbills. Foraging Red-capped Robins usually pounce onto their prey on the ground from an elevated perch, such as a low branch or a stump. The species has also been recorded raking the leaf litter with its feet, regularly stopping and holding its head cocked to one side, presumably to detect any prey it has disturbed.