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Banded Whitefaces are very small bushland birds. Both sexes look alike. They have a light-grey frons, with a narrow darker grey band above it, between the eyes. The cap is greyish-brown. The front is off-white (throat, belly) to light-grey, with a narrow black breast band in between. The mantle is rufous, while the rump is greyish-brown. The uppertail is dark-grey. The wing feathers are dark grey-brown, while the flanks are scalloped rufous-white. The irises are grey. The short and deep bill is dark-grey, while the legs and feet are near-black.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Banded Whiteface is available HERE .

NB: Reports on ebird of birds submitted by birdwatchers from the Australian Outback tend to be clustered along roads and public areas such as camp grounds; in such cases their distribution is not a good representation of the overall distribution of the species.

Banded Whitefaces are endemic to the arid interior of the Australian continent. Their overall range comprises roughly central WA, the southern half of the NT, and the north-eastern half of SA, up to far south-western QLD and far north-western NSW. Within that range their distribution is patchy.

Banded Whitefaces have a preference for arid scrub (with scattered mulga, saltbush) and sparse grassland.

M. Eaton reports spotting Banded Whitefaces at Erldunda, NT, near the Stuart Highway, in June 2023. Others were found at Waddy Acacia, near Birdsville, QLD, in July 2026. All sighting, photographic and audio information presented on this page has been kindly contributed by M. Eaton.