The buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) is a small diurnal insectivorous perching (passerine) bird in the Petroicidae family, a group commonly known as the Australo-Papuan or Australasian robins. It is also known as the buff-sided fly-robin, buff-sided shrike-robin and Isabellflankenschnäpper (German). The buff-sided robin is endemic to northern Australia were it primarily occurs in riparian forests and monsoonal vine thickets from the Kimberly region of Western Australia to the north-west Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria. The plumage of the adult birds is characterised by a dark hood and back with a prominent white stripe on the supercilium, a white throat, white wing and tail bars and a striking buff to orange patch on the flank below the wings. Adult birds are not sexually dimo