White-breasted robin

The white-breasted robin, Eopsaltria georgiana, is a passerine bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae and is endemic to southwestern Australia. It was first described by Quoy and Gaimard in 1830 as Muscicapa georgiana, named for King George Sound, and was long placed in the genus Quoyornis before that genus was merged into Eopsaltria. Unlike many Australian robins it lacks bright colours: adults are 14.5 to 17 cm long with blue-grey upperparts, paler eyebrows, whitish underparts and a grey tail tipped with white. It lives in tall karri forest and dry sclerophyll forest in the south and in coastal thickets from Geraldton to Yanchep in the north. It is sedentary and territorial, insectivorous, and a cooperative breeder in which helper birds, mostly males, assist the breeding pair. Two eggs are laid in a cup nest of grass, bark and spider webs.