Like the Eastern Yellow Robin, Western Yellow Robins inhabit forests and woodlands but also range into drier scrubland such as mallee further inland. They occur in far south-western Australia, as far north as Shark Bay and east to Israelite Bay - they are also found in South Australia on Eyre Peninsula where the principal habitat is mallee scrub.

In my experience, Western Yellow Robins are somewhat shyer than their eastern counterparts, or perhaps they are just harder to locate because their songs are not as loud as the penetrating piping call so well-known in the east. Eastern and Western Yellow Robins are very similar in many respects - some books still combine them as a single species. They are both sedentary, live in permanent territories and indulge in co-operative behaviour at the nest.