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Mangrove Robin (Peneothello pulverulenta)

Mangrove Robin
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Mangrove Robin

The mangrove robin (Melanodryas pulverulenta) is a passerine bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is found in the Aru Islands, New Guinea, and northern Australia. The bird's common name refers to its natural habitat. It lives in mangrove forests and seldom flies outside these biomes.

Source: Mangrove robin on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 23 recordings for this species: 11 CC BY-NC-ND · 8 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.