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White-faced Robins are small robins. Their most prominent feature is a conspicuous, "owlish" which facial mask. Apart from the white forehead, chin, cheeks and eye-rings, the side and top of the head are black, while the nape of the neck and the rest of the upperparts, including the tail, are dark olive-green. The wings are darker and more greyish than the back. The facial mask is accentuated by a bright-yellow semi-collar around the front. The rest of the front is yellow. The irises are dark. Legs and feet are pinkish. Juveniles have brownish cryptic plumage, with darker (and more streaked) upperparts than the underparts.

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 White-faced Robin is available HERE .

White-faced Robins are found in parts of West Papua, New Guinea and in far north-eastern Australia.

In Australia White-faced Robins are present only on the eastern side of the northern Cape York peninsula in far-northern QLD.

White-faced Robins have a preference for tropical rainforest, both at low altitudes and in mountainous terrain.

B. Hensen reports spotting White-faced Robins at Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in December 2018. All sighting and photographic information presented on this page has been kindly contributed by B. Hensen.