Identification: Males have glossy black upper parts, throat, upper breast and sides of breast. The remaining underparts are white.
Females have blue-grey upper parts extending down onto the wings. The head and nape are darker and the tail is brown as are most of the wings. The throat is rufous and the rest of the underbody is white.
Both males and females have an erectile sub-crest across their crowns.

Call/Song: Rattling, wheezing and rasping are all heard from the satin flycatcher along with a loud piping whistle choo-ee choo-ee.

  Down the Great Dividing Range south along the east coast to Tasmania and into South Australia.

Habitat:Found in the wet forests of hillsides, valleys and gullies.

Feeding: Diet comprised of grasshoppers, beetles, blowflies, crane-flies, moths and long-tailed wasps.

Breeding/Nesting: Usually breeds from October to January. Builds a cup-shaped nest of fine strips matted together and coated with spiderweb. The nest is decorated with lichen and lined with rootlets and hair.

Movement: Always on the move, this bird is seen darting from branch to branch or chasing flying insects. When not flying, the satin flycatcher sways it body and tail from side to side and quivers its tail. 

Other Common Names: Satin 'sparrow', shinig flycatcher.

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Reader's Digest Services (1979) Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds, Surry Hills, NSW.