2013 $1 Australian Bird Songbirds PNC

The Green Catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) belongs to the bowerbird family. It was given its common name for the wailing catlike call that it issues to mark its territory. Both males and females sporadically punctuate the day with this rasping cry, calling in chorus at the beginning and end of the day. The three isolated populations of this species occur on the north-east coast of Cape York, in the Helenvale-Ingham region of northern Queensland, and on the central New South Wales coast south to the eastern corner of Victoria.