Yellow-legged Flyrobin

Yellow-legged FlyrobinThe Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.What does it look like?A small flyrobin weighing about 11 g, it has a dark upper bill, yellow lower bill and yellow legs.How does it live?The Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.In New Guinea it occurs in mid-montane rainforest. The Cape York subspecies feeds and nests in the middle and upper canopy of rainforest and nearby open forest. A 1977 Lockhart River nest was a cup made from roots, bark and lichen bound with spider web.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.