Apostlebird

Order Passeriformes; Family Struthideidae (Australian Mudnesters); Scientific name: Struthidea cinerea; Common name: Apostle Bird – Resting in the shade - Distribution in Australia: found in arid and semiarid parts of eastern Australia from the south-western side of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland through western and central New South Wales to north-western Victoria and eastern and south-eastern South Australia with a disjunct population at Barkly Tableland in the Northern Territory; it is generally absent on and east of the Great Dividing Range.