Falcunculus frontatus
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The eastern shriketit (Falcunculus frontatus) is a species of passerine bird in the family Falcunculidae. It is also known as bark tit, crested tit or yellow-bellied tit. It is found in south-eastern Australia from the southeast of South Australia, throughout Victoria, eastern New South Wales to southeastern Queensland, with some scattered occurrences further north and west in Queensland.
The eastern shriketit was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Lanius frontatus. It was named Falcunculus flavigulus by John Gould, which he quickly realised was a frontatus in female plumage.
Three subspecies of the crested shriketit (Falcunculus frontatus) were recognised as distinct species based on their widely disjunct distributions and plumage differences, so that F. frontatus was split from F. whitei and F. leucogaster following Schodde and Mason (1999). In appearance, the eastern shriketit differs from the northern shriketit (F. whitei), which has broad yellow wing-margins and brownish-grey wing coverts, and the western shriketit (F. leucogaster), which has a white belly, olive-grey wing-coverts and yellow-edged remiges.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Otway National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Kosciuszko National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Blue Mountains National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 5 | Grampians National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Royal National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Shrike-tit sighting in Great Otway National Park on a given day, based on 182 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 90th most-seen of the 175 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and July–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Shrike-tit in Great Otway National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and April–June, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eastern Shrike-tit sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
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Of the 6 parks where we can rate Eastern Shrike-tit sightings, Great Otway National Park has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Lamington National Park (Australia, about 10%) and Kosciuszko National Park (Australia, under 5%).
Same family: Pachycephalidae
The closest relatives of the Eastern Shrike-tit that you can see in Great Otway National Park (family Pachycephalidae, Whistlers and Allies) are Gray Shrikethrush (about 60%), Golden Whistler (about 30%) and Rufous Whistler (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eastern Shrike-tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Great Otway National Park (182 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
