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Sphecotheres viridis

NOTES: Also called Mulberrybird and Bananabird. Frequents lowland forests and settled areas (including gardens and city parks), especially where fig trees occur. It is gregarios, noisy and conspicuous, constantly uttering it's peculiar chattering notes; these sometimes extend into mimicary. Food: mulberries (I find them in my mulberry bushes), figs, and other soft fruits

NEST: Open, shallow, of vine-tendrils and twigs; although only scanty, it is strongly built into the forked leafy twigs of an outer branch of a tree, at heights of up to 25 metres from the ground

EGGS: Usually three; varying from pale apple-green to dull olive-green, with reddish or purplish-brown markings. Breeding-season: October to January.

DISTRIBUTION: Northern and eastern Australia, west to the Kimberley, WA and south to about Kiama NSW. Two well-marked subspecies (in Australia), formerly regarded as distinct species, but which interbreed over a wide area of coastal Queensland: S. v. flaviventris (Yellow Figbird) occurs north of about Cardwell, and S. v. vielloti (Southern or Green Figbird...shown) south of about Proserpine. Also Indonesia and New Guinea

from What Bird is That? Neville W. Cayley 1931. revised Terence Lyndsey 1984. p41, p43. Angus and Robertson. Sydney. Australia

The male (left) and female are one of two pairs visiting the mulberry trees in the front yard this spring