Buff-sided Robin
Photo: P Barden · CC BY 4.0

Australasian Robins

Buff-sided Robin

Poecilodryas cerviniventris

LCLeast Concern Endemic to Australia
Family
Australasian Robins (Petroicidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) is a small, diurnal, insectivorous, perching (passerine) bird in the family Petroicidae, a group commonly known as the Australo-Papuan or Australasian robins. It is also known as the buff-sided fly-robin, buff-sided shrike-robin, and Isabellflankenschnäpper (German). The buff-sided robin is endemic to northern Australia, where it primarily occurs in riparian forests and monsoon vine thickets from the Kimberly region of Western Australia to the north-west Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria. The plumage of the adult birds is characterized by a dark hood and back with a prominent white stripe on the supercilium; a white throat, white wing and tail bars, and a striking buff to orange patch on the flank below the wings.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Northwestern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, eastward to northwestern Queensland).

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.