An Australasian robin of coastal and sub-coastal eastern Australia that occupies a wide range of habitats from South Australia to Cooktown. It prefers fairly dark, shaded locations and in our area is reasonably common around Byfield, you should easily be able to see one at Waterpark or Upper Stony National Parks.
Like all our Robins it is not a relative of either the European Robin or the American Robin being more closely related to many tropical and Australian passerines* including Pardalotes, Fairy-wrens, Honeyeaters and, surprisingly, Crows.
 It is a perch and pounce hunter, typically from a tree trunk, wire, or low branch, whose diet is a wide range of small creatures such as insects, spiders and other arthropods. Both sexes are similar in appearance with breeding taking place between July and January, as with many Australian birds this is often communal. The nest is a neat cup made of fine plant material and spider web, usually placed in a fork disguised with lichen, moss, bark, or leaves.