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Lingiari has or used to have 70 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Christmas Island Thrush.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Christmas Island Thrush

Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus

Status: Endangered

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus is found across 1 electorates.

The Island Thrush is 21 to 22 cm long. It has a wingspan of about 34 cm, and a mass of 44 to 68 g. It has brown to dark-grey upperparts, a white chin and throat, a grey-brown to grey breast, dull orange flanks, and a belly that is dull orange on the sides and white in the centre. It has dark brown irides, a prominent ring of yellow to orange-yellow skin around each eye, a yellow to orange bill, and yellow to orange-yellow legs and feet. The male and female are almost identical, but they do vary slightly in the colour of the bill. Juvenile birds can be distinguished from the adults, with the most obvious difference being a series of streaks and spots that cover part of the upperparts, and most of the underparts, of juvenile birds. Immature birds are very similar to the adults, but retain some aspects of the juvenile plumage.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation