Both sexes contribute with nest construction, incubation of eggs and caring for the young. Nests can be built and eggs laid within 3 days 1946 and may be built in low shrubs or trees, including mulga, cork bark ("Hakea lorea"), sandalwood ("Santalum") or on top of thick creepers, about above the ground. The nest is generally an open, deep, saucer-shaped, well-made structure constructed from twigs or short grass stems, e.g. spinifex, bound with spider-web, which may be placed on thin twigs at the end of a branch or at the junction of several thin horizontal leafy stems and suspended by the rim.