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Crested Shrike-tit The Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus) occurs in Australia, with three subspecies inhabiting open eucalypt forest and woodland in the southwest (F. leucogaster), north (F. whitei) and east (F. frontatus). It has a parrot-like bill, used for distinctive bark-stripping behaviour, which gains it access to invertebrates. Males are larger than females in wing length, weight, and bill-size (Noske 2003). Males have black throats, while females have olive green. Recent work with nuclear gene sequencing suggests that the Shrike-tits and Wattled Ploughbill (Eulacestoma nigropectus) may require their own family, Falcunculidae (Dickinson 2003). References - Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd Ed. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Schodde, R. and I. J. Mason. 1999. Directory of Australian Birds. Passerines: i-x, 1-851. CSIRO Publishing, Canberra.
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