Spotted Pardalote
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| Male with nesting material, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Female with nesting material, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pardalotidae |
| Genus: | Pardalotus |
| Species: | P. punctatus |
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| Pardalotus punctatus (Shaw & Nodder, 1792) |
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| The Approximate Distribution of the Spotted Pardalote | |
The Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus) is one of the smallest of all Australian birds at 8 to 10 cm in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the Diamondbird. Although moderately common in all of the reasonably fertile parts of Australia (the east coast, the south-east, and the south-west corner) it is seldom seen closely enough to enable identification.
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[edit] Nesting
All Pardalotes have spots and all nest in tunnels at least sometimes; the Spotted Pardalote has the most conspicuous spots and (like the Red-browed Pardalote) always nests in tunnels. Pairs make soft, whistling wheet-wheet calls to one another throughout the day, which carry for quite a distance. One of the difficulties in locating a Pardalote is that the contact call is in fact two calls: an initial call and an almost instant response, and thus can come from two different directions.
[edit] Numbers
Spotted Pardalote numbers appear to be declining, especially in urban areas,[1] but the species in not considered endangered at this time.[2]
[edit] Gallery
- Spotted Pardalote Gallery
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Singing male Armstrong Creek, Queensland -
Male and female birds burrowing
Thirlmere NSW
[edit] References
- ^ "Small insect-eating birds". Birds in Backyards. 9 November 2009. http://birdsinbackyards.net/feature/insectivores.cfm. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Pardalotus punctatus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 05 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
[edit] External links
- Spotted Pardalote videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection.
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