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 |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Shrike-tit sighting in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 86th most-seen of the 127 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and March
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Shrike-tit in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–May and July–December, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
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.
3rd of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Eastern Shrike-tit sightings, Kosciuszko National Park ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Great Otway National Park (Australia, about 10%) and Lamington National Park (Australia, about 10%).
Same family: Pachycephalidae
The closest relatives of the Eastern Shrike-tit that you can see in Kosciuszko National Park (family Pachycephalidae, Whistlers and Allies) are Gray Shrikethrush (about 50%), Rufous Whistler (about 40%) and Golden 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 Kosciuszko National Park (21 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.
